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Latin Americans have inscribed (themselves) into Madrid as they have taken up everyday lives after adapting to a new socio-spatial environment upon arrival; they have dynamized the city by establishing and re/assembling nodal points of encounter for diverse and overlapping forms of migrant Latin American citizenries with regard to national backgrounds, ethnicity/race, sex/gender, class, age, etc.. Nonetheless, a shared Latin American background, that implies similar migration experiences, is a strong social lubricant that triggers feelings of mutual attachment, commonality and a sense of belonging. In the following chapter conditions of arrival and installation are described, as well as place-making for cultural, social, and political practices and networking activities that have made Latin Americanness an integral part of the city and migrants to citizens.
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Jüssen, L. (2017). Assembling Latin Americanness in Madrid. In: Migration Citizenship Labour. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19105-4_4
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