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Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain /

This interdisciplinary book offers a fresh way to understand present-day Spain in relation to its African and Latin American migrants. It combines readings of a large range of cultural works with a clear understanding of political, historical, and social context, in order to rethink migrant identiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vega-Durán, Raquel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the migrant and the making of Spain
  • When we were "the other" : emigrant memories and immigration in Spain
  • Liminal paradoxes at and "in" the border : Ceuta, Melilla, and the Strait of Gibraltar
  • Stretching the border : Atlantic Ocean, airport customs, and other crossings
  • The "other" shore in contemporary Spanish cinema
  • Repopulating "Madre Patria" : transatlantic encounters inside Spain
  • Spain's integral diversity.