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- Title
Doing Barzakh, Making Boza: Betwixt and Between Migration and Immigration in Tangier.
- Authors
Bajalia, A. George
- Abstract
As growing numbers of migrants wait in Morocco to continue their journeys northwards, the social consequences of this time spent 'en route' should be further considered. This time spent waiting fosters new claims to belonging and political identity as would-be migrants to Europe become immigrants to Morocco. This article recounts ethnographically how forms of community emerge amongst im/migrants in Tangier through forms of shared difference and labours. In these borderlands, immigrants use terms such as 'making boza' and 'crossing al-barzakh' to describe the temporal stance of waiting. In Islam, al-barzakh refers to the firmament separating life and death. This article brings these concepts into discussion with anthropological conceptualisations of liminality to query how forms of being-in-common emerge alongside promises of inclusion and threats of exclusion.
- Subjects
MOROCCO; TANGIER (Morocco); EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIAL impact; POLITICAL affiliation; COMMUNITIES; LIMINALITY; BORDERLANDS
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2023, Vol 41, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0305-7674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/cja.2023.410103