Cities like spaces of inter-legality in the context of immigration

Abstract

The relevance of urban space in the current global transformations is undeniable. Cities, in a broad sense, are privileged spaces where occurs the process of economy trans-nationalization, politics, culture, and unquestionably Right. Contemporary immigration flows are, at the same time, source and consequence of such process. For this reason, in this paper I consider convenient to analyze this multiple-level process from the perspective of the different normative orders. Specially it is important to analyze the discourse and practices of people that is on the system fringe such as illegal immigrants or “sinpapeles”. In our urban context the most important events are those related to immigrant protests of 2001 year in Barcelona. In such events the “action ground” were public spaces, at the same time that not legal-recognized interlocutors mediated the conflict. Such process proposed the possibility that a new concept of citizenship became reality.