Dima Africa, daily darija
Im/migrant sociality, settlement, and state policy in Tangier, Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A George Bajalia (0000-0001-9431-9079, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 973-992 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2020.1800212 |
| OpenAlex | W3045809670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 23 |
During the 2018 African Nations Championship football tournament, Morocco filled new suburban stadiums around the Kingdom, boasting its capacities to host major African events. Such displays contribute to Morocco's ongoing politicking in the African Union even while Morocco walks a thin line between regularising immigrants and surveilling them. Tournament spectators blurred ostensible social-culture boundaries during matches, and its official slogan (Dima Africa) reflected a Moroccan mix of darija and French. In Tangier's Ibn Batouta Stadium, potentially antagonistic spectators from diverse social, religious, ethnic, and class positions across Central and West Africa cheered unanimously for Nigeria against Libya's national team, with constant jeering and verbal abuse targeted at the then recently exposed allegations of slave markets in Libya. Based on ethnographic research around the 2018 Championship matches in Tangier, this paper situates emergent trans-ethnic, religious, and national solidarities within emic political and social discourses in Tangier. Such discursive fabrics reveal how im/migrants' time spent waiting in Morocco potentially predicates comprehensive social bonds, including the deceptively spontaneous and eventful socialities articulated above. Understood in these contexts, waiting time is not vacuous, but productive of new forms and languages of belonging and difference with potential political consequences
Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Slogan · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · Law · North African History and Literature
French, a local language of radio and podcasts in Morocco
Doing Barzakh, Making Boza
Migration, race, and gender
Making Use of Everything
Telling histories of the present
Migration policy and international human rights frameworks in Morocco
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology
Foreign Bodies, Local Language
Waiting
Timepass
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Cruel Optimism
The Migration Apparatus
Illegality, Inc
Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual
Mediterraneans
Borders and the Relocation of Europe
The Will to Be Otherwise/The Effort of Endurance
Waiting in the asylum determination process
Stuck in the middle
The pitfalls of transnational consciousness
Out of Time
The Land of Open Graves
The Ritual Process
The burning
The chronopolitics of exile
Wastingmbeng
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |