Arbor
Volume 186, Issue 744, 2010, Pages 721-736

Glass borders immigration. vision of eastern european immigrants in Spain [Fronteras de cristal de la inmigración. visión de los inmigrantes del este europeo en España] (Article) (Open Access)

Marcu S.*
  • a CCHS-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

Abstract

Symbols of barrier and learning of our existence, emblems of our shipwreck civilization, the borders even continue constituting,in the 21st century an important reference, although we are in the heat of was of the globalisation. The article sets out to present and to analyze the problematic one of the adaptation of the immigrant in the space of immigration. The paper taking as example the immigrant of Eastern Europe in Spain, and it guides from the immigrant speech. The first part approaches the border area like symbolism and the imaginary labyrinth of the borders; next it is realised trough qualitative study, an analysis of the factors that lead to the maintenance of the initial unsuitability of the foreigner, and the way in which perceives this one in Spain. Finally, I present, symbolically, the glass borders of immigration, from the voice of the immigrant.

Author Keywords

immigrants Symbolic space Border Spain Eastern Europe

Index Keywords

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77955795063&doi=10.3989%2farbor.2010.744n1228&partnerID=40&md5=72725699c9f823130615935eda08a80a

DOI: 10.3989/arbor.2010.744n1228
ISSN: 02101963
Original Language: Spanish