Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders

Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain

AvRaquel Vega-Durán

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and Africa. In the last twenty-five years, Spain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one in which immigrants make up nearly 12 percent of the population. This rapid growth has made migrants increasingly visible in both mass media and in Spanish visual and literary culture. This book examines the origins of media discourses on immigration and takes the analysis of contemporary Spanish culture as its primary framework, while also drawing insights from sociology and history. Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders introduces readers to a wide range of recent films, journals, novels, photography, paintings, and music to reconsider contemporary Spain through its varied encounters with migrants. It follows the stages of the migrant’s own journey, beginning outside Spanish territory, continuing across the border (either at the barbed-wire fences of Ceuta and Melilla or the waters of the Atlantic or the Strait of Gibraltar), and then considers what happens to migrants after they arrive and settle in Spain. Each chapter analyzes one of these stages in order to illustrate the complexity of contemporary Spanish identity. This examination of Spanish culture shows how Spain is evolving into a new space of imagination, one that can no longer be defined without the migrant—a space in which there is no unified identity but rather a new self-understanding is being born. Vega-Durán both places Spain in a larger European context and draws attention to some of the features that, from a comparative perspective, make the Spanish case interesting and often unique. She argues that Spain cannot be understood today outside the Transatlantic and Mediterranean spaces (both real and imaginary) where Spaniards and migrants meet. Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders offers a timely study of present-day Spain, and makes an original contribution to the vibrant debates about multiculturalism and nation-formation that are taking

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-23
Mått:152 x 230 x 23 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781611487428

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Raquel Vega-Durán is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Claremont McKenna College.

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"Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders is the most innovative and original book about migration that I have ever read. Raquel Vega-Durán moves away from the traditional representations of immigrants in order to revisit their interdisciplinary depiction in literature, film, music, art, and photography, arguing that migrant narratives are essential to understand the current perceptions in the redefinition of Spanish national identity. Vega-Duran's insightful interpretations are characterized by a fresh and unique vision. This book is a must-read, and it will become an important reference in the field of Spanish cultural studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Migrant and the Making of SpainChapter 1: When We Were “The Other”: Emigrant Memories and Immigration in SpainChapter 2: Liminal Paradoxes At and “In” the Border: Ceuta, Melilla, and the Strait of GibraltarChapter 3: Stretching the Border: Atlantic Ocean, Airport Customs, and Other CrossingsChapter 4: The “Other” Shore in Contemporary Spanish CinemaChapter 5: Repopulating “Madre Patria”: Transatlantic Encounters Inside SpainChapter 6: Spain’s Integral DiversityBibliography IndexAbout the Author

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