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Coming

of

Age

in

Madrid

Coming of Age in Madrid is oral history at its best. Plann developed trusting relationships with her subjects; conducted rich, detailed interviews that documented the particulars of their lives; and followed them over half a dozen years as their dreams flourished or waned. She then made the inspired decision to place the narrators own words squarely at the center of her account so that we understand their experiences through their own eyes. The result is an engrossing and enlightening book that demonstrates the value of oral history in illuminating the crucial issues of our time.

T ERESA B ARNETT , Director, Center for Oral History Research,
University of California, Los Angeles

This is a wide-ranging account of the situation of children who migrate illegally from Morocco to Spain. It reveals the ill-treatment, the prejudice, and the discrimination they encounter in both countries. It is a well-written book which has the merit to analyzethrough oral history and the lived experiences of these children, following their trajectory into young adulthoodwhat happens to them and the dangers they face in both countries. It also shows the inadequate migration policies in the Euro-Mediterranean region and the failure of the development project in Morocco.

M OHA E NNAJI , President, Professor, and Co-founder of the International
Institute for Languages and Cultures (INLAC), Fez, Morocco

Susan Plann has written an extraordinary book on the experiences of Moroccan youth navigating adolescent and adult life as migrants. Based on an impressive longitudinal study, Coming of Age in Madrid examines the complex ways in which unaccompanied young people traverse borders, bureaucracy and belonging. Incredibly timely and relevant to contemporary understandings of migration and its implications for life course development, this important book is a must-read for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners alike.

Roberto G. Gonzales, Professor of Education, Harvard University and author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

Often compared to Mexican migration to the United States, Moroccan migration to Spain, across the Mediterranean Rio Grande, is long-standing and multi-faceted. This insightful book investigates an under-researched and hard-to-access element of Moroccan migration to Spainthat of unaccompanied minors. Based on oral-history testimonies of 27 teenagers and young men, Susan Plann weaves a rich and detailed account laced with drama, tragedy, courage, survival, and for some of her informants, ultimate success. Her book represents a significant contribution to the ongoing story of migration into Southern Europe.

R USSELL K ING , Professor of Geography, University of Sussex

Coming of Age in Madrid is a work of thoroughly done research, showing the complex, difficult, and in some ways also fascinating lives of unaccompanied Moroccan minors who migrate to Spain. Susan Plann, a sensitive listener, prompts us to pay attention to the voices of those who are usually silenced. Through personal interviews over a period of six years starting in Tangier and ending in Madrid, this study encourages us to rethink our ideas about what democracy and justice mean in the global North. In a context of growing racism and Islamophobia, this is an incisive and indispensable book that could not be more timely.

L AURA M IJARES , Professor of Linguistic and Oriental Studies,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Through detailed and nuanced life stories of Moroccan ex-minors, Coming of Age in Madrid reveals global inequalities that force migrants to undertake an arduous journey across continents. The book captures the spirit of hope and resilience and attests to the agency of Moroccan youth and their determination to carve out space for themselves in diasporas to escape the bureaucracy and economic stagnation at home. Combining structural analysis with ethnography, Susan Plann complicates the mainstream discourse around migration and makes a significant contribution to contemporary global and transnational migration studies.

I RUM S HIEKH , Faculty, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

This vivid oral history draws on authentic stories told in original voices by unaccompanied minors who made the dangerous journey from Morocco to Spain. At times both haunting and inspiring, the work masterfully weaves together the stories of these young men as they navigate issues of culture, identity, and religion in Spain, putting a human face on the complex political and economic conditions that shape their experiences. This is an incredibly timely study in an age of increased global migration and the tightening of border controls.

D RIS S OULAIMANI, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages,
San Diego State University

Dedication

For my narrators, for unaccompanied Moroccan migrant minors and youth in Spain, and for unaccompanied child migrants and youth everywhere. For ngeles Sotorres Vendrell, who guided me during the early phase of this research and left us before it was completed, in memoriam.

Coming

of

Age

in

Madrid

An Oral History of Unaccompanied
Moroccan Migrant Minors

Susan Plann

Copyright Susan Plann, 2019.

Published in the Sussex Academic e-Library, 2018

SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS

PO Box 139, Eastbourne BN24 9BP, UK

Distributed worldwide by

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Chicago, IL 60610, USA

ISBN 9781845199418 (Cloth)

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Contents

MENA is the Spanish acronym for unaccompanied foreign minors ( menores extranjeros no acompaados ).

Acknowledgments

This research was conducted with the generous assistance of the Asociacin Franciscana de Apoyo Social (AFAS), the Asociacin Horuelo, the Fundacin la Merced Migraciones, the Asociacin El Olivar, and the Asociacin de Trabajadores e Inmigrantes Marroques en Espaa (ATIME). My deepest gratitude goes to ngeles Sotorres Vendrell of the Asociacin Horuelo, who guided my first steps in this research, taking me under her wing just as she did with so many unaccompanied Moroccan migrant youth; her work was cut short in 2012 by her untimely passing. The following individuals also provided much appreciated assistance, introducing me to potential narrators and arranging for me to interview them: Director ngel Boty Carrasco Cabrero, Juan Manuel Juanma Nez Velzquez, Esmeralda Millas Mancera, and Mostafa Bouchtaoui, all of the Asociacin Horuelo; Jos Luis Alcobendas gueda of the Asociacin El Olivar; and Jaime Rey Escapa of the Asociacin Franciscana de Apoyo Social (AFAS).

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