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ABSTRACT
Many studies have focused on the importance of immigrants participating in the public spaces of the cities where they have settled in order to become integrated. Our research, in contrast, demonstrates the importance of contextualizing participation within the framework of the power relationships that justify and give meaning to certain practices of discipline and control. We look at one concrete example in Seville (Spain): the regulation of the Latin American sports leagues of San Jeronimo. This case demonstrates the central role of public space in monitoring and controlling immigrants and in the dynamics of resistance they develop.
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Notes
3. ‘[In Spain there exists] a dual model of political intervention on matters of foreign immigration. It is a duality because it acts formally in two areas of administrative competency: on the one hand, control over migratory flows is the responsibility of the central administration; and on the other, the insertion of immigrants in the receiving society is in the hands of regional and municipal administrations’. (López de Lera Citation2008, 252)
4. A term used by Ecuadorians and the majority of Latin Americans for a game similar to volleyball, which differs by the number of players on each team – three instead of six – as well as by the possibility for a player to briefly hold the ball when it is touched.