Social exclusion and visibility of newcomers and foreigners
Abstract
This article analyzes a case of discrimination in Sant Cugat del Vallés, a town in Barcelona, Spain, where criteria for discrimination among its citizens are established by differentiating between inhabitants and new comers (nouvinguts). The case shows that linguistic reflection, also in the media, has changed for the better the behavior of the media. Nevertheless, from a derogatory visibility of immigrants between 1960 and 1999, there has been a change to a discursive invisibility, which seems to be an indifference reaction before a new situation of high increase in the rate of foreigners. Even if the inactuality of immigration contrasts with the production of alienating stereotypes of the previous period, they are both subtle forms of exclusion.
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