Elisa Brey

In Southport (UK) and Torre-Pacheco (Spain), attacks took place, in 2024 and 2025 respectively, against people who are considered part of mainstream society. These crimes were committed by people who are seen as foreigners: a lone murderer whose parents came from Rwanda, although he was born and raised in the UK, and, in Spain, three men from Morocco. A widespread disinformation campaign immediately took place targeting minority groups. The disinformation campaign was followed by violent riots against minority groups, in both countries. Through the media coverage of those events (initial attacks, disinformation campaigns, violent riots, and political responses), what conception of minority groups (their place in society) and social cohesion (who we are, as a society) does the media disseminate to the audience? The aim is to highlight whether or not the media adopt culturally informed communication. The Guardian and The Telegraph, in the UK, and El País and ABC, in Spain, were selected for the agenda-setting analysis of 298 news articles. The main hypothesis is that communication in progressive newspapers is more culturally informed than in conservative newspapers. This is mostly confirmed in the UK, while differences between media are not so clear in Spain. Although some indicators show more culturally informed communication in Spanish and progressive media, all newspapers place immigration at the centre of the debates on social cohesion. By reproducing the arguments of the far right and online misinformation, mainstream newspapers contribute to spreading and legitimising anti-migrant and anti-diversity rhetoric.

El artículo se centra en el espacio local, para explorar el impacto de la vulnerabilidad en el caso de las mujeres. Se prestará especial atención a los procedimi El artículo presta atención a los procedimientos y estrategias que las mujeres despliegan en su vida cotidiana para hacer frente a posibles dificultades, mediante el análisis de sus redes de apoyo y arraigos territoriales. El carácter innovador de este trabajo reside en su atención a la articulación entre distintas redes y arraigos locales. En entornos donde las redes institucionales ofrecen recursos limitados para dar respuesta a las necesidades de los ciudadanos, las redes de tipo informal, que se articulan en torno a familiares, vecinos y amistades, cumplen un papel fundamental para el bienestar de la población, junto con las redes formadas por entidades sociales. Además, el artículo aporta datos empíricos en clave comparativa sobre perfiles de mujeres que se diferencian por el momento de su ciclo vital (mayores, jóvenes con o sin hijos, adultas con hijos menores a su cargo) y su procedencia (nacidas en España o inmigrantes). entos y estrategias que ellas despliegan en su vida cotidiana para hacer frente a posibles dificultades, mediante el análisis de sus redes de apoyo y arraigos territoriales. El artículo se basa en el trabajo empírico realizado en 2018 y 2019, en siete zonas localizadas en cuatro barrios de la ciudad de Madrid y tres barrios de la periferia metropolitana. Se llevaron a cabo entrevistas con tres perfiles de mujeres: mayores, jóvenes y mujeres con hijos, siendo inmigrantes la mayoría de ellas. La vulnerabilidad experimentada por ellas nos acerca a una realidad social en la cual todavía se dejan sentir los efectos de la crisis económica de 2008, que se intensificarán con la crisis del COVID 19.

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This article analyses the transition from temporary to permanent residency in Italy and Spain. Despite the growing number of permanent residents in Southern European countries, scholars have paid limited attention to the legal transitions that take place in migrants’ lives after regularisation. We show that different regulations regarding permit renewals can account for qualitative differences in immigrants’ permanent residency. The analysis focuses on legal transitions of two groups of Ukrainian respondents in Italy and Spain. The significant presence of Ukrainian migrants in these two countries, together with the similarity of their legal migration patterns – from overstaying visas to obtaining long-term residency – makes Ukrainian immigration a particularly interesting case to study the hidden mechanisms and implications of legal transitions. The analysis presented here is based on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted in Italy and Spain and reveals differences between norms regarding the renewal of residency permits and their long-term implications for migrants’ labour market participation. In Italy, restrictive renewal regulations and economic requirements contribute to entrapping Ukrainian immigrants in the live-in niche of care work, while occupational trajectories of Ukrainian migrants in Spain are more diverse due to less strict renewal regulations.

Nowadays, basing ourselves on the perspective of the ongoing process of globalisation, the mutual interaction between sports and both sociological and political dimensions cannot be denied. Currently, football is the global and widespread sport. Indeed, it has practically turned into a religion and has become a strong national identity builder in many countries (mainly in South America, Africa and parts of Europe). It is also the most important sport in the almost federalised and pluri-national Spanish state. However, it has not only been used traditionally to strengthen the Spanish national identity building process, but also to promote internal peripheral nationalism. Therefore, this research will analyse and substantiate the interaction between football and the regional and national cleavages (analysing the creation of national identities) in the Basque Country and Catalonia (within the Spanish periphery), compared to Madrid (as the main representative of the Spanish political centre). Thus, the Autonomous Communities (regional) selections, and the main clubs (Athletic de Bilbao, F. C. Barcelona) capacity for promoting national identity or nationalist attributed values, will be explored.