Elliot, Alice. 2021. The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253054746 [Book]

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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.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Date:	April 2021
Item ID:	27005
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2019 15:53
Last Modified:	13 May 2021 12:00
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27005

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