Convivencia

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<p><span>While</span><span>Convivencia</span><span> is a specific historical term that has come to represent an idea of peaceful co-existence,</span><span> Convivencia: Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town</span><span>complicates this simplistic vision. Instead, it shows how</span><span>convivencia</span><span> has been and is indeed always conflict-ridden by scrutinising the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts and considering why</span><span>some</span><span>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</span></p><p></p>

Autorenportrait

<p><span>Martin Lundsteen</span><span>(PhD in social anthropology) is currently a Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and Carlsberg Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College. He also teaches in migration and urban studies at University of Barcelona and the University of Girona.</span></p>

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