Mata Codesal, Diana2025-10-292025-10-292020Mata-Codesal D. Anti-social behaviour in the square: differentiation mechanisms among non-native groups in a peripheral neighbourhood of Barcelona. Ethnic and racial studies. 2020;43(4):768-86. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.15991310141-9870http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71699This paper analyses differentiation processes between non-native groups in a stigmatized peripheral neighbourhood of Barcelona. Its more established dwellers – internal migrants from the South of Spain – have set in place differentiation processes between them and the more recently arrived international migrants. To substantivize differentiation processes, in a context where race has been largely silent, they appropriate the “civic terminology” that has become popular in the city in the last decade. In the global context of hyper-regulation and increasing privatization of urban public spaces, this group’s discursive strategies, based on the civic/non-civic divide, aim to ensure control over accessible open public space, a resource that is locally scarce. Using the ethnographic example of the tensions around “proper behaviour” in the area’s main square, the article explores processes of identification and differentiation in a context where autochthony cannot be unproblematically called upon.application/pdfeng© This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and racial studies on 19 Apr 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599131info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599131ImmigrantCivicAutochthonyWe-nessPublic spaceBarcelonainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess