[Leica] IMG: Algerians in Alicante

[Jim Nichols]

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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/11/2019 10:10 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Very interesting. Thanks for clarifying!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
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> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:33 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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>> 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/ <
>> 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:
>>> 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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>>>> YNWA
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