Interurbans borders for immigarnt population in Barcelona

Abstract

Despite the tightening of the border regime by member states of the European Union, immigrants continue to arrive in both regular and irregular manner. This fact has not only led to changes in the structures that stifle the free flow of people, but has moved new forms of control to urban setting and selective exclusion of certain areas of the city from different sectors of the population. The result is the creation of a series of intraurbans borders that run through different institutional arrangements, social practices and spatial exclusion.