Eviction and immigrants: ethnography in a damage community.

Authors

  • Ignasi Bernat Molina University of Girona

Abstract

The crisis that started in 2007 in United States affected Spain very deeply, and the preceding prosperity soon appeared to be a mirage. But the crisis has not affected everyone to the same extent. This paper focus on one of the multiple sides of Spanish crisis: the evictions and the reesistance to them by immigrant people. For doing that, the author examine one village that is a paradigmatic case of a migrant enclave in Spain: Salt.   There, the author has done a ethnography with one criminological perspective, that reveals that the problem that is actually generating more social harm in town, undoubtedly more than the street crime are the evictions.

Published

2014-09-29

Issue

Section

Research Papers