Takhayyul Seminar ‘The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco’

Alice Elliot is a lecturer in social anthropology at Goldsmiths. She works in Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy on themes of gender, kinship, intimacy, Islam and theological/political imagination, hope, and indigenous conceptions of movement.

Before joining Goldsmiths, Alice was a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at UCL, and a Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuve

What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to migration by focusing on places of departure rather than arrival and rethinks migration from the perspective of those who have not (yet) left. Through an intimate ethnography of towns and villages notorious in Morocco for their striking emigration to “the outside,” Elliot traces the powerful ways migration permeates life, from brutal bureaucratic machinery to imaginative horizon of self and future. Challenging dominant understandings of migration and their deadly consequences by centering non-migrants’ sharp theorizations and intimate experiences of “the outside,” Elliot attends to the ethnographic, conceptual, and political imagination required by the constitutive relationship between migration and life.

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