Latin American Immigration to Spain

Díaz, Emma Martín; Gallardo, Francisco José Cuberos; Castellani, Simone

doi:10.1080/09502386.2012.669774

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“…Special attention was given to the activities of women who stood out through their engagement within these migrant organizations during the pandemic. We had prior knowledge of the majority of these associations, which we had followed in past ethnographic researches (Castellani & Martín‐Díaz, 2019 ; Martín Díaz et al, 2012 ; Martín‐Díaz, 2012 ) about agricultural labour markets, domestic service and prostitution. Thus, we were aware of their previous work focused on trade union activities (denouncing working conditions, fighting for labour rights) and political activism (around the effects of the Law on Foreigners, demands for regularization), which allowed us to identify qualitative changes in terms of their internal political organization and in their relations with institutions and the rest of civil society.…”

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Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Martín‐Diaz

Castellani

2022

International Migration

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During the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain, the lockdowns brought about the loss of labour and social rights for many migrant women working in highly informal employment sectors. Drawing on digital ethnography, this article examines the role of migrant women in political mobilization within migrant associations during 2020 in Spain, when online interactions assumed primary importance. First, it shows how migrant organizations create bricolage by combining economic, social, cultural and political resources to organize migrants in Spain during COVID‐19 within the digital space. Second, the article highlights how the reactions of the migrant population to the pandemic in Spain represent an act of disruption led mainly by women, within the dynamics of social conflict and political activism that characterize migratory processes. This analysis displays as well the crucial role played by care relationships in these contexts of crises.

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Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Martín‐Diaz

Castellani

2022

International Migration

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“…At the legal level, they found a relatively advantageous scenario for integration. Organic Law 7/1985, which regulated for the first time the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain, imposed a visa for non-nationals entering the country, with the exception of countries covered by special treaties, including many Latin American states (Martín et al, 2012). Colombians were able to enter Spain without a visa until January 2002, which facilitated the initial strong growth of the community.…”

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“…The recent history of migration in Spain reflects a strong contrast between two differentiated stages. The first decade of the 21 st century was marked by an important increase in inflows, resulting in the growth of the foreign population to previously unknown levels (Martín, Cuberos and Castellani, 2012). Amongst it, Colombian migrants have had a specific weight, with the population born in this country and residing in Spain increasing from 17,928 in 1998 to 440,540 in 2019 (more than half with Spanish nationality) (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE).…”

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Colombian-Spanish Migrants in London since the Great Recession

Bermudez

Gallardo

2021

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This article discusses the (dis)integration processes of Colombian-Spanish migrants arriving in London since the 2008 economic crisis, as the background to understand their political attitudes and participation. It is based on data from qualitative quantitative fieldwork, complemented with statistical and bibliographical sources. From a transnational perspective that takes into account the home country and more than one destination, the results indicate that the context of the Great Recession in Spain and Brexit in the United Kingdom have had diverse impacts in migrants’ integration processes, which are appreciable in their remigration trajectories, work and social experiences, but also in their political interests, participation and ideologies. From this data, we confirm the need to interpret migrants’ complex mobilities and their political participation based on a broader conception of integration processes, which includes their multidimensional character and reversible condition, and reflects the growing diversity of (im)mobile political experiences in contexts of crises.

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“…Even though the Unites States of America monopolizes Latin American migratory fl ows, especially from Mexico, many South Americans, like Ecuadorians and Peruvians have travelled across the ocean to settle in Europe, especially in Spain (Eurostat, 2016). This country, besides economic crises and political polarization, remains an important target to migrants (Morén-Alegret, 2015) (Díaz et al, 2012) (Mount & Romei, 2019). Only in the last decade, about 1.5 million arrived to Spain (The Economist, 2012).…”

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“I make Mexico at my home”: social media usage, diasporic discourse, and cultural endurance of Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain

Plascencia

2020

Revista OBETS

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Mientras que existe una miríada de trabajos centrados en los mexicanos que viven en los Estados Unidos de América, poca atención se ha prestado a las comunidades diaspóricas mexicanas en Europa. El propósito de este trabajo es comprender cómo las redes sociales virtuales sirven de vínculo entre los mexicanos radicados en Barcelona, España y su país de origen, así como la forma en que estos migrantes utilizan las plataformas sociales, no sólo para compartir información para mejorar su vida cotidiana, sino también para preservar su identidad cultural. El trabajo de campo consistió en 17 entrevistas semiestructuradas “in situ” realizadas a mexicanos que viven en Barcelona, cuyas edades oscilan entre 21 y 60 años durante junio y julio de 2016. Los sujetos fueron contactados a través de un grupo de Facebook llamado “Mexicanos en Barcelona” que tiene más de 5,000 miembros. Este grupo está conformado no solo por mexicanos que viven en Barcelona, sino que también incluye a mexicanos en México con el interés de estudiar, viajar o trabajar en la ciudad.

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Latin American Immigration to Spain

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Colombian-Spanish Migrants in London since the Great Recession

“I make Mexico at my home”: social media usage, diasporic discourse, and cultural endurance of Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain

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