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Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

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In his article “An Imagined Geography: Ideology, Urban Space, and Protest in the Creation of Barcelona’s ‘Chinatown’, c. 1835–1936,” Chris Ealham traces the cultural processes through which the idea of a Chinatown came to exist in Barcelona more than 50 years before any Chinese person ever inhabited Barcelona’s Raval.

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Parati, G. (2017). Areas of Limited Access and Affective Places. In: Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55571-3_3

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