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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823822203321

Autore

San Martín Pablo

Titolo

Western Sahara : the refugee nation / / Pablo San Martín

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2010

ISBN

1-299-20073-7

0-7083-2381-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Iberian and Latin American studies

Disciplina

964.803

Soggetti

Refugees - Western Sahara

Western Sahara

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: 'If you ever arrive at a wide white land ...'; From Cuba to Villa Cisneros: The Construction of a Spanish Neocolonial Space in the Sahara; From the Spanish 'Peace' to Armed Struggle:The Emergence of Saharawi Nationalism; From Refugees to Citizens: Exile and Nation-building in the Saharawi Refugee Camps; From Soldiers to Shopkeepers: Nationalism,Development and Social Change in the Saharawi Refugee Camps; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the dynamic process of construction of the new Saharawi identity, culture and society developed in the refugee camps over the three last decades of conflict and analyses the complex articulation of elements from the Hispanic, Arab and African worlds that shapes the contours of the Saharawi Refugee Nation.