Migrants and Cities: The Accommodation of Migrant Organizations in Europe

232 Pages·2012·1.06 MB·English

by  Margit Fauser

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Migrants and Cities
The Accommodation of Migrant Organizations in Europe
Margit FaUser
Bielefeld University, Germany
© Margit Fauser 2012
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identified as the author of this work.
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Fauser, Margit, 1972-
Migrants and cities : the accommodation of migrant
organizations in Europe. -- (Research in migration and
ethnic relations series)
1. Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Europe.
2. Immigrants--Government policy--Europe. 3. Immigrants--
Europe--Societies, etc. 4. Europe--Emigration and
immigration--Government policy.
I. Title II. Series
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Fauser, Margit, 1972-
Migrants and cities : the accommodation of migrant organizations in Europe / by Margit
Fauser.
p. cm. -- (Research in migration and ethnic relations series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-1-4094-2186-3 (hbk) -- isBn 978-1-4094-2187-0 (ebk)
1. Europe--Emigration and immigration--Government policy. 2. Immigrants--Europe--
Societies, etc. 3. Immigrants--Societies, etc.--Government policy--Europe. I. Title.
JV7590.F39 2011
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2011030409
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Tables ix
List of Abbreviations xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Approaching the Research on Migrant Organizations in Cities 17
3 The Dynamics of Recent Immigration and Policy Responses in
Spanish City Contexts 37
4 Migrant Organizations in Barcelona and Madrid 79
5 Migrant Organizations in Established Immigration Contexts 121
6 Conclusions 169
Appendix 1: Methodology for the Spanish City Cases 181
Appendix 2: Visited Institutions 185
Appendix 3:Evolution of Migrant Population in Barcelona and Madrid 187
Primary Sources 189
Bibliography 193
Index 211
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Acknowledgements
This book is a result of empirical field work in Madrid and Barcelona and desktop
reading and writing at my home institution, the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld
University where a research and lecturing position allowed me to undertake this
project.
I am grateful to my former supervisors, Professor Thomas Faist, Bielefeld
University, and Professor Joaquín Arango, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
who helped me start and further develop this project. Thomas Faist discussed
with me many aspects of this book, provided invaluable comments on draft
chapters as well as ongoing support and encouragement. For many years I have
benefited from his expertise and the friendly atmosphere in the research group on
Transnationalization, Development and Migration which he directs. During my
visits to Madrid, Joaquín Arango was of great support in discussing with me the
rapidly changing immigration situation in Spain and the equally dynamic legal
reforms as well as the progress of my empirical research.
For the Spanish city cases I benefited greatly from two research stays at the
Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (IUOG), Madrid, and the Centro de
Investigación de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarollo (CIDOB), Barcelona.
Without these opportunities this study most probably would not have been possible.
At both institutions I was provided with office space and other privileges, and above
all with support and interest in my work. Colleagues in Madrid and Barcelona shared
their professional insights into the new immigration situation in Spain and also
often their more personal experiences with me. They drew my attention to recently
finished studies and ongoing research and assisted me with hints and suggestions
on the more practical challenges of empirical research in this special field. I am
particularly indebted to Gemma Pinyol at CIDOB and Professor Joaquín Arango
in Madrid for many helpful suggestions and support. The empirical field research
for the Spanish city cases was supported by a grant from the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD). A grant from the Young Researchers Fund of Bielefeld
University supported my work on the book in the final stages of research and writing.
I would also like to thank the participants of several researcher seminars and
colloquia at Bielefeld University for continuous discussion throughout the research
process, data analysis and writing. Several friends and colleagues accompanied
the writing of this book at different stages of whom I wish to mention Eva Dick,
Jürgen Gerdes, He-Young Haubner, and Eveline Reisenauer for helpful comments
and suggestions on several draft versions of different chapters. Special thanks also
go to Peter Lenco who has carefully edited this book and to Eva Drebenstedt for
providing assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.
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Greatest thanks goes to all the people who were willing to share their time
and perspectives with me, upon which large parts of this study are based and
without which it would never have come into existence, although responsibility
for interpreting and presenting their views is all mine.

Margit Fauser, Bielefeld, Germany
2011
List of Tables
3.1 Foreign population in Barcelona and Madrid (1996–2008) 40
3.2 Four phases of Spanish immigration and integration policy 42
3.3 Regularization programmes in Spain 47
3.4 City of Barcelona, subsidies for ‘immigration’ 66
3.5 City of Madrid, subsidies for ‘cooperation / immigration’ – 1 72
3.6 City of Madrid, subsidies for ‘cooperation / immigration’ – 2 72
4.1 Migrant organizations in Barcelona and Madrid 80
4.2 Development and co-development projects of migrant organizations
in Madrid 115
A3.1 Top ten of non-communitarian migrants in the City of Barcelona 187
A3.2 Top ten of non-communitarian migrants in the City of Madrid 188