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Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failure to describe how it operates in specific regions. Ribas-Mateos examines globalization and migration across the Mediterranean, using an innovative, integrated framework so as to map social places by describing how social, political, cultural, and economic forces are embedded within a globalizing environment.The author articulates an original and compelling narrative, mapping the Mediterranean as a global place where international and regional forces are intertwined in multiple threads. In doing so, she identifies two key components of globalization--affecting specifically forms of welfare and issues of mobility--in the context of a weakening European welfare state and the relocation and reinforcement of Mediterranean borders. Nine Mediterranean cities are investigated as gateway cities, which shape two major effects of globalization: welf
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Southern Europe; 1: Southern Europe in a Migratory Context; 2: Understanding Welfare Mix Variations; 2: Border Cities; 3: Border Cities in a Global Perspective; 4: Border Ethnographies; Conclusion: The Global in One Sea
