Stefan Festini Cucco is a social and cultural anthropologist, research fellow and lecturer at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. He holds a joint PhD from the Universities of Salento and Cologne. His main research interests are society, culture, politics, and the environment. He is currently conducting research on human–animal–plant relationships, perceptions of ecosystems and biodiversity, and grasslands and transhumance in the Alps and the Mediterranean.

• Introduction 1. The Land, the men 2. Relations with the socio-political Other 3. Maritime and montane economies of the Rif and the role of Al Hoceima 4. Ethnography of Rifian migration: cause and effect 5. Impacts on Rifian society 6. Al Hoceima: transformations of a place 7. Political actors and the changing city Conclusions

Stefan Festini Cucco is a social and cultural anthropologist, research fellow and lecturer at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. He holds a joint PhD from the Universities of Salento and Cologne. His main research interests are society, culture, politics, and the environment. He is currently conducting research on human–animal–plant relationships, perceptions of ecosystems and biodiversity, and grasslands and transhumance in the Alps and the Mediterranean.

• Introduction 1. The Land, the men 2. Relations with the socio-political Other 3. Maritime and montane economies of the Rif and the role of Al Hoceima 4. Ethnography of Rifian migration: cause and effect 5. Impacts on Rifian society 6. Al Hoceima: transformations of a place 7. Political actors and the changing city Conclusions

Stefan Festini Cucco is a social and cultural anthropologist, research fellow and lecturer at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. He holds a joint PhD from the Universities of Salento and Cologne. His main research interests are society, culture, politics, and the environment. He is currently conducting research on human–animal–plant relationships, perceptions of ecosystems and biodiversity, and grasslands and transhumance in the Alps and the Mediterranean.

• Introduction 1. The Land, the men 2. Relations with the socio-political Other 3. Maritime and montane economies of the Rif and the role of Al Hoceima 4. Ethnography of Rifian migration: cause and effect 5. Impacts on Rifian society 6. Al Hoceima: transformations of a place 7. Political actors and the changing city Conclusions