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The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) - Hardcover

Book 21 of 22: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Elliot, Alice

 
9780253054739: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253054737 ISBN 13: 9780253054739
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2021

Synopsis

What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to migration by focusing on places of departure rather than arrival and rethinks migration from the perspective of those who have not (yet) left. Through an intimate ethnography of towns and villages notorious in Morocco for their striking emigration to "the outside," Elliot traces the powerful ways migration permeates life: as brutal bureaucratic machinery administering hope and despair, as intimate force crisscrossing kinship relations and bonds of love and care, as imaginative horizon of the self and of the future. Challenging dominant understandings of migration and their deadly consequences by centering non-migrants' sharp theorizations and intimate experiences of "the outside," Elliot recasts migration as a deeply relational entity, and attends to the ethnographic, conceptual, and political imagination required by the constitutive relationship between migration and life.

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About the Author

Alice Elliot is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She edited (with Roger Norum and Noel B. Salazar) Methodologies of Mobility: Ethnography and Experiment.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253054737
ISBN 13 
9780253054739
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
204