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3 results foundAuthor: Juntunen, Marko Title: Between Morocco and Spain: Men, migrant smuggling and a dispersed Moroccan community Summary: This study concerns the social construction of gender in a context characterised by movement across international borders. What follows can be classified as the ethnography of Moroccan sha´bi young men whose lives are deeply touched by "harraga" migrant smuggling from Morocco to Spain. The main stage of this study is in Morocco but constant side-tracks opened by the subjects' social connections lead us to Spain, especially to industrial regions around Barcelona. The cultural context within which these men operate refuses to be bounded by geographical borders. In short: we are dealing with processes of constructing male gender in a cultural setting which resists labelling in geographical terms. These men, if not actually crossing borders themselves, would very much like to see themselves do so. They identify themselves in complex ways so that notions of 'belonging', 'loyalty' and 'home' are ambiguous and often contradictory. In many ways these men are between Morocco and Spain. In respect to the men that form the subject of this study, the nature of their social connections and the centrality of migration in their lives as an actual practice or aspiration make it essential to think of Morocco and migrant concentrations in Spain as a single cultural space with its flows of influences which bear upon male identities. The main interest lies in the following questions: how do these men orient in a social reality characterised by tensions between international mobility made possible by harraga and the restrictions of mobility imposed by the European Union's (EU) migration policy? What does this, in many respects new political, economic and social space mean to these men and how do they conceptualise their place in it? What do their migration practices and discourses concerning migration tell about notions of male identity and masculinity? How should we understand the choices of thousands of Moroccans who pay fortunes to migrant smugglers, embark on small open boats (pateras) and risk their lives hoping to reach the northern shore of the Mediterranean? Details: Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2002. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed on December 8, 2011 at: http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/aasia/vk/juntunen/betweenm.pdf Year: 2002 Country: Finland URL: http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/aasia/vk/juntunen/betweenm.pdf Shelf Number: 123508 Keywords: Human SmugglingMalesMigrantsMoroccoSpain |
Author: Clark, James H. Title: Archaeological Site of Colonia Clunia Sulpicia Penalba de Castro, Burgos, Spain Summary: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The assessment team completed a case study, including a physical security assessment of Clunia and its surrounding environs, along with a review of other historic sites in the region. The objective of this assessment was to identify those conditions that could create security vulnerabilities for the site and its resources, including people, assets, and activities. It is the assessment team’s view that a key factor in considering risk to the site is the Clunia community’s lack of understanding and appreciation of the value of the site and the potential economic boost it could bring to the region. The Cultural Administration (Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Junta de Castilla y Leon and Directorate of Culture Diputacion Provincial de Burgos) certainly understands the value of the ruins, yet at a community level, Clunia may be seen more as a natural resource for community use. Nearby residents in Peñalba de Castro and the countryside use the area for recreational pursuits such as mushroom picking and dog walking. Over time, nearby residents have removed artifacts to adorn homes and other buildings in the community. Looting remains the primary security threat to Clunia; there has been a history of looters using metal detectors and other tools that have been transported onto the site by paying visitors or others who have accessed the site surreptitiously after-hours. Additionally, the loss of a large stone with phallic symbols, which took much time and care to remove, suggest that commercial looters are also drawn to the site. Current security strategies, including the presence of an after-hours security officer, have been ineffective in deterring, detecting, or delaying these intruders, and losses have often been identified only after the fact. The limited application of security technology and physical security features, the gaps in security personnel coverage on site, and the lack of timely police response in this remote and sparsely populated region further exacerbate Clunia’s security challenges. The assessment team offers the following recommendations as detailed in the report to diminish the opportunities for looting and unwanted intrusion: - Begin the process of educating the public on the unique value that Clunia brings to the region and the community. - Install strategically placed thermal cameras to inform security when there is someone in proximity to the perimeter fence and elicit an on-site security response to that location. -Establish a more robust full-time security presence on-site during all hours that the site is closed to the public. - Provide security officers with better equipment, including two-way radios or cellular phones, to enable immediate communications with the proposed security control center and law enforcement. Further provide officers with an all-weather patrol vehicle for perimeter patrols and intrusion response. - Provide those officers with the requisite training to facilitate an effective and proactive security presence Details: Alexandria, VA: Asis International Foundation, 2018. 37p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 16, 2019 at: https://www.asisonline.org/globalassets/foundation/documents/crisp-reports/archaeological-clunia_crisp-report.pdf Year: 2018 Country: Spain URL: https://www.asisonline.org/publications--resources/news/blog/new-asis-foundation-crisp-report-outlines-strategies-and-best-practices-for-securing-archaeological-sites/ Shelf Number: 154174 Keywords: Archaeological Ruins Archaeological Site Security Artifacts Clunia Commercial Looters Looting On-Site Security Security Vulnerabilities Spain |
Author: Kalir, Barak Title: "I do my Work but I don't Agree with the Law": Police Agents Managing Deportation in Madrid, Spain Summary: Based on a nonconsecutive fieldwork of 6 months among different police units responsible for deportation in Spain, I explore the practices and dilemmas of police agents who detain and deport illegalized migrants. Police agents seem to be particularly torn between two dominant tendencies in enforcing deportation policies: first, the need to apply ambiguous policies and unsatisfying laws that can be interpreted in different ways by superiors and colleagues; second, the need to justify potentially immoral situations that are produced in interactions with deportable subjects. In addition, the work of police agents who handle deportation is often coming under heavy public critique by the media, NGOs and other non-state actors. The paper aims to highlight the ways in which the police are caught up in an indecisive space of implementation that is constructed top-down by policies and laws that are unable, or unwilling, to sensibly regulate the deportation terrain, and bottom-up by the complex lived realities of illegalized migrants and deportable subjects. Police agents are having much discretion in interpreting and implementing state policies according to their views and by injecting meaning into their deportation practices. An ethnographic exploration of police practices divulges the wide gamut of views and approaches that different agents adopt. The picture that emerges from this exploration is thus not of well-disciplined police that work in a regimented and uniformed manner, but of agents who struggle to reconcile their own moral and sense of doing meaningful policing work with the need to enforce deportation policies that are being ethically and legally contested by different state and non-state actors. Details: Washington, DC: Proceedings of the 2018 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, 2018. 13p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 20, 2019 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3371417 Year: 2018 Country: Spain URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3371417 Shelf Number: 156544 Keywords: Deportation Policies Illegal Immigrants Illegal Migrants Illegal Migration Law Enforcement Policing Spain |