Ecuadorians in Madrid
Migrants' Place in Urban History
Authors: Masterson-Algar, Araceli
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Araceli Masterson-Algar is Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and Associate Professor at Augustana College, USA.
- Reviews
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“In Ecuadorians in Madrid, Araceli Masterson-Algar … sets out to explore the role of this collective in shaping everyday urban life on both sides of the Atlantic. … Masterson-Algar sheds light on migrant urban life in millennial Madrid, where the city could prove at once hostile and beguiling to its newest residents. … Ecuadorians in Madrid is a welcome and important addition to the scholarship on contemporary Spanish urbanism and the spatialization of migration.” (Sophie Gonick, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, July, 2017)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-20
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Ecuador in Madrid/Madrid in Ecuador: Transnational Dynamics between Ecuador and Spain in the Twenty-First Century
Pages 21-46
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Beginning of the Itinerary: Madrid’s Subway
Pages 47-80
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First Stop, Lago: Lakes and Lacunaes in Madrid’s Parks
Pages 81-122
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Second Stop, Nuevos Ministerios: Planning Madrid’s Nightlife
Pages 123-169
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ecuadorians in Madrid
- Book Subtitle
- Migrants' Place in Urban History
- Authors
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- Araceli Masterson-Algar
- Series Title
- Hispanic Urban Studies
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-53607-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137536075
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-53606-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-71054-6
- Series ISSN
- 2662-5830
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 287
- Topics
