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Convivencia
Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town
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2022
Summary
While Convivencia is a specific historical term that has come to represent an idea of peaceful co-existence, Convivencia: Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town complicates this simplistic vision. Instead, it shows how convivencia has been and is indeed always conflict-ridden by scrutinising the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts and considering why some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. It does this through a multi-scalar extended case study of a small town in Northern Catalonia, Spain. Starting from an ethnography, it sheds light on the multiple local-global processes inherent to the social construction of the “migrant problem” and its solutions.
The book analyzes the simultaneously local-global transformation of migration and societies, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making in Salt with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally, the responses to these changes from the local society, institutions, and NGOs.
This work allows for a deeper understanding of the complex web of urban, social, and political transformation in which migration as a phenomenon takes part. Focusing mainly on the interaction between mobility and settlement and the socio-cultural processes at different scales through the vectors of production and reproduction of space, it advances findings on the “new social question in Europe.”
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-452-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-453-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One The Setting: Salt in the 21st Century No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter Two Social Conflicts No access Pages 29 - 54
Chapter Three Spaces of Conflict, Conflicts over Space No access Pages 55 - 88
Chapter Four An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove No access Pages 89 - 116
Chapter Five Between Territorial Stigma and Rural Gentrification No access Pages 117 - 140
Chapter Six Openings and Closures No access Pages 141 - 164
