The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts, Contemporary Questions

Juan Gomez-Rivas
Literature
UC Santa Cruz


Participants

Emily Benichou Gottreich
History and International and Area Studies
UC Berkeley

Aomar Boum
Anthropology
UC Los Angeles

Lia Brozgal
French and Francophone Studies
UC Los Angeles

Muriam Davis
History
UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Derr
History
UC Santa Cruz

Camilo Gómez-Rivas
Literature
UC Santa Cruz

Alma Rachel Heckman
Jewish Studies and History
UC Santa Cruz

Jessica Marglin
Religion
University of Southern California

Susan Miller
History
UC Davis

Adam Sabra
History
UC Santa Barbara

Susan Slyomovics
Anthropology
UC Los Angeles

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri
LIterature
UC San Diego


This project aimed to explore the historical and contemporary development of population flows and other kinds of human movement into, out of, through, and within North Africa and the intersection of that movement with systems of negotiation, adjudication, policing, and control. The theme of “Law and Movement” provided the framework for an interdisciplinary collaborative investigation by a group of 12-15 UC and California scholars of the Maghrib (broadly understood) with the secondary aim of establishing a wider scholarly network.