[Leica] IMG: Algerians in Alicante

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Very interesting. Thanks for clarifying!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:33 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Thanks for looking, Jayanand. Responding on-list since others may wonder
> also. There are two sources of connection between Algeria and Spain.
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> When Algeria was a French colony, Spain was a poor and backwards country
> in the dark ages of Franco’s dictatorship, and a number of Spanish people
> emigrated to French Algeria in search of a better life. They settled there,
> had children etc. After Algeria became independent in the early 1960s, most
> of them returned to Spain (in some cases with  children born in Algeria who
> had never been to Spain). And because Alicante is the part of Spain closest
> to Algeria (just look at the map), many of these returnees settled in this
> area. We have friends among this group—they are Spanish-French bilingual
> (often using French among themselves) but since many of them were small
> children when they left Algeria, they have not many memories and no
> particular nostalgia for the place.
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> And of course, in recent decades, we have had migration from North Africa
> here in Spain, since the tables are now completely turned in terms of
> wealth and economic development. It is those people who were celebrating
> Bouteflika’s resignation in my photos.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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> > On 11 Apr 2019, at 03:12, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > I did not know they were Algerians who had migrated to Spain, I thought
> > they were all in France!.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:41 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> > wrote:
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> >> Last week two small vignettes really brought home that our nearest
> >> neighbour here in Alicante is North Africa. On Thursday afternoon I was
> >> cycling after work, and I stopped to photograph the sunset sky over the
> A70
> >> motorway that bypasses Alicante, including in the picture a sign
> indicating
> >> the distance to Almería and the ferries to Morocco and Algeria that
> depart
> >> from there—in Spanish and in Arabic, since many of the drivers who use
> this
> >> motorway to get to the ferries to cross the Mediterranean are Moroccans
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> >> Algerians living in countries further north, such as France, Belgium or
> the
> >> Netherlands.
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> >> Then on Sunday afternoon I was walking around the centre and happened
> upon
> >> this small demonstration on Plaza Montañeta, one of Alicante’s central
> >> squares. The tone was decidedly celebratory, and I suspected that it
> had to
> >> do with the recent resignation of longtime president Bouteflika. And
> >> indeed, one of the Algerian bystanders confirmed that. I took a few
> >> pictures:
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> >> https://www.greatpix.eu/Algerians-in-Alicante/
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> >> People were very friendly and someone else asked me if I needed more
> >> information—I politely told him that I had already spoken with one of
> his
> >> compatriots there.
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> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
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> >> Nathan Wajsman
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> >> Alicante, Spain
> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
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> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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