Grammars of communal life. Studies on coexistence in La Salut y Sant Joan de Llefià, Badalona

Abstract

The migratory processes involve rethinking the relations, transits and experiences of the host communities. In this regard, the analysis of urban communal life’s scenarios implies rediscovering the old and new stories of immigration, construction of  neighbourhood, conformation of their collective actors and urban common spaces. In the analysis of the most contentious coexistence scenarios, we found discursive changes, that intent to blame the newcomer immigrant for structural problems that are being experienced as irremediable. Other speeches, that tend towards indifference in regards to communal life, show a potential conflict that make these positions unstable. The social communal life scenario seems to be built from actions that search for implication and interrelation between actors, starting out from the knowledge and appreciation of differences and highlighting the common rights.