Between exclusion and multicultural coexistence. Regional overview of immigration in Andalusia

Abstract

In the peripheral and border framework that constitutes Andalusia, in a historical moment in which economic crises follow one another and overlap (2008 crisis, current COVID-19 pandemic...), we wonder about how the settlement of the migrant population occurs, what characters contain the specific territories and habitats in which it is located, and what limitations and opportunities can be recognized from the point of view of social inclusion, intercultural encounter and coexistence.

In this sense, we try to address the influence that the market in the agricultural sector and its needs for cheap labor may have, as well as the way in which different immigrant landings occur in disadvantaged peripheral neighborhoods of cities; in both cases, different factors seem to lead to relationships characterized by the loss of the culture of dialogue and by the predominance of a purely multicultural model. In the former, this can be linked to the temporary nature and productive dimension of an agricultural activity that increasingly demands a subordinate and marginalized foreign labor force, while in the latter, the segregating dynamics of urban space are gaining notoriety.