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Author San Martín, Pablo, author.

Title Western Sahara : the refugee nation / Pablo San Martín
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2010
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Iberian and Latin American studies
Iberian and Latin American studies.
Contents 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 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
Summary Tells the story of the Western Sahara from colonialism, through a national liberation movement, to the dominant take over by Morocco and the current disputed sovereignty and legal status. Marked with grievous human rights abuses, dislodgement of thousands of Saharawis, Algerian government's ejection of thousands of Moroccans, UN actions, and large refugee camps, the modern political history of the Western Sahara is not pleasant. With the authors keen insights and humanization of the grim story, he chronologically steps through this history and is excellent in his examination and depiction of how a new Saharawi identity, culture, and social order has been developed in the refugee camps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʿArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah.
SUBJECT Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah fast
Subject Sahrawi (African people) -- Social conditions
Sahrawi (African people) -- Politics and government
Sahrawi (African people) -- Political activity
Political refugees -- Western Sahara
Political refugees -- Western Sahara -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Political refugees
Political refugees -- Social conditions
Politics and government
SUBJECT Western Sahara -- Politics and government -- 1975- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146283
Subject Western Sahara
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780708323816
0708323812
0708322050
9780708322055