Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

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This book draws a fascinating ethnography of the summer holidays in Morocco. Focusing on marketplaces and public spaces, Lauren Wagner shows how immigrants returning to their homeland from Europe deal with their 'diasporic-Moroccanness' and offers innovative insights about how ongoing fluid and transformative categorization processes are experienced and negotiated through multilingualism and embodiment. * Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel, Switzerland * This book brings much needed attention to the multi-centered experiences of migration, as social actors interact with and negotiate belonging with those in their families' 'home' society. Deftly combining fine-grained attention to broader ethnographic context as well as to participants' embodied interactional practices, this book is a must-read for those interested in questions of migration and identity. * Michele Koven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Wagner offers a new and authentic look at the relationship between language, body and identity in the case of the Moroccan diaspora. Crossing borders and languages, the author uses a combination of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and semiology to understand the fluidity of identity categorisations and dynamics of multimodal interactions in multicultural contexts. * Christine Deprez, Paris Descartes University, France * By presenting the interviews as spontaneous as they are, Wagner manages masterfully to translate the complex issues of identity triggered upon diasporic Moroccans meeting the local ones. Presenting the struggle of the diaspora to one more time assimilate with the local community and blend in at any cost, Wagner not only reminds us about the importance of identity but also of the urge to belong and have a place to call home. -- Marina Ivanovic, University of Malta, Malta * LINGUIST List 29.2670 *