Coming of age in Madrid : an oral history of unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors /

Coming of age in Madrid : an oral history of unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors /

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Author / Creator:Plann, Susan, author.
Imprint:Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2019.
Description:xi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Unaccompanied immigrant children -- Spain -- Madrid.
Unaccompanied immigrant children -- Spain -- Madrid -- Interviews.
Unaccompanied immigrant children -- Spain -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Moroccans -- Spain -- Madrid -- Interviews.
Moroccans -- Spain -- Madrid -- Social conditions.
Moroccans -- Social conditions.
Moroccans.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Unaccompanied immigrant children.
Spain -- Emigration and immigration.
Spain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Morocco -- Emigration and immigration.
Spain -- Madrid.
Spain.
Morocco.
Interviews.
Format: Map E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11767229
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ISBN:9781845199418
1845199413
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Coming of Age in Madrid is a longitudinal study of twenty-seven Moroccan youth who migrated to Madrid as unaccompanied minors, passed their adolescence in the Spanish child-care system, and embarked on their lives as young adults; interviews were conducted over a period of six years in Spain and Morocco. The stories begin with narrators' lives in Morocco, contextualizing their migratory experience, then follows them - children traveling alone - as they across the Strait of Gibraltar and make their way to Madrid; the study also engages with those who were deported, crossing the Strait once again as they were returned to Morocco. Using qualitative interviews to capture narrators' accounts in their own words, this oral history examines their identity trans/formation, integration, and acculturation in Spain. Their individual voices and their collective wisdom contribute to an understanding of their experiences and by extension, that of unaccompanied child migrants everywhere, revealing larger lessons to be learned. Documenting their transition into adulthood, the book poses the crucial question, What becomes of unaccompanied migrant minors when they come of age? Unaccompanied minor migration is on the rise throughout the world, it is the new normal. As Spain and other nations grapple with increasing numbers of unaccompanied children on their borders, the importance of this study has immediate relevance for government policies and migration research"--
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • About this Research
  • Moroccan Migration: A Historical Overview
  • Moroccan Emigration: The View from Morocco
  • Moroccan Immigration: The View from Spain
  • Organization of this Book
  • Part 1. Moroccan Boyhood
  • Chapter 2. Life before Migration
  • Chapter 3. A Culture of Leaving
  • Reasons for Leaving: Push
  • Reasons for Leaving: Pull
  • The Outliers
  • Chapter 4. Preparing to "Burn"
  • Parental Attitudes toward Minor Children's Migration
  • Living Arrangements
  • Breaching the Port
  • Chapter 5. Perils of the Port
  • A Primer on Unauthorized Emigration
  • Survival Lessons
  • Bereaved Families, Disappeared Children
  • Chapter 6. Departure
  • Try, Try Again
  • The Crossing
  • Toward a New Life
  • Part 2. MENAs in Madrid 1
  • Chapter 7. Arrival
  • In a Strange Land
  • Calling Home
  • The Un/Kindness of Strangers
  • The Police Station
  • The Age Assessment Test
  • Entering a Shelter, Leaving a Shelter
  • Welcome to Madrid
  • Choosing a Path
  • Chapter 8. The Crucible: Life in the Child Protection System
  • Residential Life
  • Practicing Islam
  • Learning Spanish, Going to School, Learning a Trade
  • Skirmishes with the Police
  • Repatriation
  • Part 3. From MENAs to Men
  • Chapter 9. Aging Out: Twenty is the New Thirty
  • First Things First
  • Continuing Education
  • Encounters with the Law
  • Vakansya: The First Trip Home
  • Dreams Deferred, Dreams Come True
  • Looking to the Future
  • Chapter 10. Coming-of-Age Stories
  • Idris
  • Farid
  • Rayan
  • Samir
  • Walid
  • El-Habib
  • Part 4. Integration, Discrimination, Acculturation, Identity
  • Chapter 11. Negotiating Integration
  • Negotiating Social Relations
  • Negotiating Romance
  • Negotiating Marriage
  • Chapter 12. Navigating Prejudice
  • Navigating the Spaniards
  • Navigating the Moroccan Community in Spain
  • Navigating Public Language Use
  • Navigating the Metro
  • Chapter 13. Negotiating Acculturation, Negotiating
  • Negotiating Acculturation
  • Negotiating Gender Relations and Gender Roles
  • Negotiating Language
  • Negotiating Islam
  • Negotiating Identity
  • Part 5. Lessons Learned
  • Chapter 14. Taking Stock
  • Worth It?
  • Advice to MENAs-in-Waiting
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion
  • Clandestine Emigration from Morocco Today
  • Moroccan Child Migrants in Spain: Lessons Learned
  • Final Thoughts
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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