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In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. Through a combination of ethnographic research and cultural analysis, this book addresses the interconnections between spatial practices, cultural production, and definitions of citizenship in migration dynamics between Ecuador and Spain, showing how Ecuadorians are key actors in Madrid's recent urban history. Looking at the city as form and content, constitutive and constituting of ideological processes, each chapter analyzes the spatial practices of Madrid's Ecuadorian residents through various forms: the body, the home, public and leisure spaces, the city, the nation, and transnational circuits. Rather than addressing migrants as a general human type marked by (dis)placement, each chapter offers an illustration of how Ecuadorian migrants forge transnational processes through their everyday lives in specific time and place, and how these processes manifest culturally on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Araceli Masterson-Algar is Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and Associate Professor at Augustana College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecuadorians in Madrid
Book Subtitle: Migrants' Place in Urban History
Authors: Araceli Masterson-Algar
Series Title: Hispanic Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137536075
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53606-8Published: 12 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71054-6Published: 13 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53607-5Published: 08 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 287
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Migration, Ethnicity Studies, Area Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Demography