Abstract

EL HARRAS, Mokhtar. Tangier: from International Status to Transnational Mobility. Alteridades [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.50, pp.27-35. ISSN 2448-850X.

The study of the transnational dimension of Tangier (a city located in the North end of Morocco) requires considering two dynamics which, whereas they converge, act at different levels. First, there is an intervention "from above", whose initiative comes from the rulers, with a neoliberal vision widely opened to privatization and to the call of international finance capital. The second one refers to a movement "from below", marked by the economic transformations in the area and the new opportunities in terms of investment, employment and exchange, as well as the transnational mobility of Moroccan emigrants themselves who, through the borders, create their own transboundary space of life, work, social and labor networks. This paper analyzes both dynamics, starting from the international status that Tangier maintained until 1956 and focusing on its condition as a transnational city at the beginning of the 21^st century.

Keywords : border city; transnationalism; transnational circulatory territories; globalized city-region; urban inequality.

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