Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation
Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation | Pablo San Martín
2 posts | 1 read
In 1975, after Francoist Spain abandoned Western Sahara, Morocco and Mauritania hastily moved in to occupy the territory, despite protests by the United Nations and resistance from a nascent Saharawi liberation movement known as the Frente Polisario. During the conflict's first few months, thousands of Saharawis were displaced to the neighboring Algerian region of Tindouf, where almost 200,000 Saharawis still live today in four large refugee camps. But now these camps are more than refugee settlements: they have become the center of a state founded by the Saharawi nationalists, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic. This book examines how a new Saharawi identity, culture, and society has emerged in these refugee camps over the past few decades and highlights the impact that the Hispanic, Arab, and African worlds have had in shaping the contours of this nation.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Texreader
post image
Pickpick

#WesternSahara is a strip of the desert bordered by the Pacific Ocean fought over between Morocco and Mauritania following Spain‘s painfully slow withdrawal from its colonial grip. The tribes living there have been put into two massive refugee camps, so massive they‘ve become cities unto themselves. This paper looks at the current situation and its history. I opted to read the 600+ page esample rather than buying the rest because I felt like ⬇ï¸

Texreader I learned a massive amount this slice of land that I‘d never have known otherwise (& happy to have done so), but a paper I‘d never read again. Also, I‘ve read so much of it that I‘m giving it a thumbs up, rather than a bail. #readingafrica2022 (edited) 2y
BarbaraBB Quite an achievement 👌🽠2y
Librarybelle Wow! I think noting it as a completion after 600+ pages makes perfect sense! 2y
51 likes3 comments
blurb
Texreader
post image

I‘ve decided to read this book for #WesternSahara, which is 2/3 shorter than the previous one I picked and it describes the current situation there after the Spanish abandoned the land allowing the Moroccans and Mauritanians to swoop in and throw the native tribes into refugee camps. It is the most modern of colonial disasters. Spain abandoned the land only in the mid-1970s! I‘ve already learned a lot. #readingafrica2022