TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abderrezak,Hakim
TI  - Ex-centric migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean cinema, literature, and music
SN  - 9780253020758
AV  - PN1995.9.N66 
U1  - 304.8/4061 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Bloomington, Indianapolis
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - North Africans in motion pictures
KW  - North Africans in literature
KW  - Immigrants in motion pictures
KW  - Immigrants in literature
KW  - Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
KW  - Emigration and immigration in literature
KW  - Music
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Class of Spring 2021
KW  - Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
KW  - Fellow
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index
N2  - Writing in the wake of the political and social uprisings known as the "Arab Spring" and the restrictive European immigration policies that followed, Hakim Abderrezak contests the common notion that emigrants from former European colonies migrate predominantly to the land of the ex-colonizer. Focusing particularly on clandestine migration practices, he shows that despite a linguistic affinity, a tradition of labor, and additional historical ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) are no longer trekking to France, but instead are drifting toward other destinations like Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Middle East. Abderrezak locates this migratory shift away from France in literary, cinematic, and musical representations of the emigrant's journey. Contrary to mass media coverage and mainstream political discourse, these cultural productions reveal new patterns of human movement and an alternative mapping of the Mediterranean; Introduction: Mediterraneans and migrations in the global era -- Disimmigration as a remedy for the illness of immigration in Ismaël Ferroukhi's Le grand voyage -- "Burning the sea" : clandestine migration across the Mediterranean in Francophone Moroccan illitterature -- Southward road narratives : how French citizens become clandestine immigrants in Algeria -- The new Eldorado in Mediterranean music -- Europe bound : shooting "illegals" at sea -- Heading home : post-mortem road narratives -- Conclusion : "white sea of the middle" or "wide sea to meddle in"?
ER  -