Work, love, refuge, and adventure

Contemporary Spanish migrants in the city of Tangier

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4766249
AutoresCatherine Therrien (0000-0002-3439-0508, Al Akhawayn University (AUI), School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Ifrane, Morocco, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume24
Fascículo1
Páginas175-200
Data de publicação2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2018.1459269
OpenAlexW2796663665
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

This paper explores the individual trajectories of contemporary Spanish migrants, who decided to live in the Moroccan city of Tangier, by describing the various motives that guide this North–South migration. The micro-sociological analysis of these journeys makes it possible to qualify the migratory factors revealed in the literature, showing that the post-2008 global economic crisis is not the only decisive factor. This paper shows that economic drivers not only should be nuanced, but also cannot be disentangled from more personal ones, such as nostalgia (or lack thereof), affective bounds, religious connections, attraction and/or repulsion for cultural otherness, transnational mobility, youth incarceration, and power relationships

Adventure · Art history · Power (physics · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · History · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies