Coming of age in Madrid : an oral history of unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors /
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Author / Creator: | Plann, Susan, author. |
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Imprint: | Eastbourne, UK ; Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press, 2019. ©2019 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12352342 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 ONE: Moroccan Boyhood; 2 Life before Migration; 3 A Culture of Leaving; Reasons for Leaving: Push; Reasons for Leaving: Pull; The Outliers; 4 Preparing to "Burn"; Parental Attitudes toward Minor Children's Migration; Living Arrangements; Breaching the Port; 5 Perils of the Port; A Primer on Unauthorized Emigration; Survival Lessons
- Bereaved Families, Disappeared ChildrenBereaved Families, Disappeared Children; 6 Departure; Try, Try Again; The Crossing; Toward a New Life; Toward a New Life; PART TWO: MENAs in Madrid; 7 Arrival; In a Strange Land; Calling Home; Calling Home; The Un/Kindness of Strangers; The Police Station; The Age Assessment Test; Entering a Shelter, Leaving a Shelter; Entering a Shelter, Leaving a Shelter; Welcome to Madrid; Choosing a Path; 8 The Crucible: Life in the ChildProtection System; Residential Life; Practicing Islam; Learning Spanish, Going to School, Learning a Trade
- Skirmishes with the PoliceSkirmishes with the Police; Repatriation; PART THREE: From MENAs to Men; 9 Aging Out: Twenty is theNew Thirty; First Things First; Continuing Education; Encounters with the Law; Vakansya: The First Trip Home; Dreams Deferred, Dreams Come True; Looking to the Future; 10 Coming-of-Age Stories; Idris; Farid; Rayan; Samir; Walid; El-Habib; PART FOUR: Integration, Discrimination, Acculturation, Identity; 11 Negotiating Integration; Negotiating Social Relations; Negotiating Romance; Negotiating Marriage; 12 Navigating Prejudice; Navigating the Spaniards
- Navigating the Moroccan Community in SpainNavigating Public Language Use; Navigating the Metro; 13 Negotiating Acculturation, Negotiating Identity; Negotiating Acculturation; Negotiating Gender Relations and Gender Roles; Negotiating Language; Negotiating Islam; Negotiating Identity; PART FIVE: Lessons Learned; 14 Taking Stock; Worth It?; Advice to MENAs-in-Waiting; 15 Conclusion; Clandestine Emigration from Morocco Today; Moroccan Child Migrants in Spain: Lessons Learned; Final Thoughts; Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover