Convivencia - Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town

This book analyzes the local-global transformation of migration and societies in a small Catalan town through a multi-scalar ethnography, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally, the socio-political responses to these changes.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Setting: Salt in the 21st Century
2 Social Conflicts: Negotiating Borders and Boundaries
3 Spaces of Conflict, Conflicts over Space
4 An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: From Zero Tolerance to Policies of Quieting and Convivència
5 Between Territorial Stigma and Rural Gentrification: A Urban Paradise for the Middle Class?
6 Openings and Closures
Appendix: Dramatis Personae
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Summary

This book analyzes the local-global transformation of migration and societies in a small Catalan town through a multi-scalar ethnography, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transf...

Product details

• Authors: Martin Lundsteen, Lundsteen Martin Lundsteen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538167915
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6791-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Challenging Migration Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, conflict;convivencia;Ethnography;Migration;sociology;urban