Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author''s findings challenge the assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-à-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.
Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author's findings challenge the assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-à-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Peoples of Alfaya: The Relocation of Peasants in Southern Europe
Chapter 2. Contested Boundaries
Chapter 3. Putting Immigrants in Their Place
Chapter 4. The Symbolic and Political Manufacturing of the Legitimation of Legality
Chapter 5. The Imagining of Multicultural Convivencia in a Legally Bounded Social Space
Chapter 6. The Senegalese Transnational Social Space: Survival and Identity in the Interstices of State Reproduction and Global Economy
Chapter 7. A New Convivencia? Belonging and Entitlement from the Margins
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index