Political parties and immigrant associations: alliances in the presence of politicized immigration conflicts at the local level: a comparative study

Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos

Political parties and immigrant associations: alliances in the presence of politicized immigration conflicts at the local level: a comparative study

Document Type

Doctoral thesis
Published Version

Author

Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos

Director

Zapata Barrero, Ricard

Publication Date

2016-01-18

Pages

289 p.

Citation

Triviño Salazar, J. Political parties and immigrant associations: alliances in the presence of politicized immigration conflicts at the local level: a comparative study. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2016. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/350567

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Doctoral program

Programa de doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials

Abstract

La presente tesis doctoral investiga la formación de alianzas entre partidos políticos y asociaciones de inmigrantes en presencia de conflictos politizados sobre inmigración a nivel local. Esta investigación incorpora la importancia de actores específicos en la literatura sobre inmigración basada en las estructuras de oportunidad política. Con este fin, se desarrolla, en tres artículos, un estudio comparativo basado en métodos cualitativos (fuentes secundarias y entrevistas semi-estructuradas) donde se analiza el surgimiento de alianzas en tres conflictos localizados en tres ciudades de Cataluña: la campaña anti-rumano-gitana en Badalona; la prohibición del burka en Lleida y el no empadronamiento de inmigrantes en situación irregular en Vic. Las conclusiones del estudio defienden que las alianzas están: primero, conectadas a la movilización de recursos; segundo, son el resultado de distintos patrones de movilización; tercero, profundamente conectadas al ambiente político y finalmente, son el resultado de las estructuras de poder que los inmigrantes enfrentan a nivel local.
The Ph.D. thesis studies the formation of alliances between political parties and immigrant associations in the presence of politicized immigration conflicts (PICs) at the local level. With this in mind, I introduce the importance of alliances between specific actors in the immigration literature following the political opportunity structure (POS) approach. To do so, I develop, in three articles, a comparative case-study research based on qualitative methodology (desk research and semi-structured interviews). I analyze the emergence of alliances in three conflicts located in cities in Catalonia, Spain, namely: the anti-Romanian-Roma campaign in Badalona, the burka ban in public buildings in Lleida and the banning of undocumented immigrants from the local census in Vic. The results show that alliances are: first, connected to the mobilization of resources; second, the outcome of different patterns of mobilization; third, strongly shaped by the political environment and finally, the result of the local power structures that immigrants face.

Keywords

Alliances, Immigrant associations, Immigration conflicts, Local level, Political opportunity structure, Political parties, Politicization, Alianzas, Asociaciones de inmigrantes, Conflictos sobre inmigración, Estructuras de oportunidad política, Nivel local, Partidos políticos, Politización