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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 20, Issue 1, 2007
Volume 20, Issue 1, 2007
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Immigration and street entrepreneurship in Alicante, Spain
Authors: Leland L'Hote and Chad GastaWithin the theoretical framework of Entrepreneurship Studies, this article investigates the thriving immigrant-based street market system in Alicante, Spain. Entrepreneurship research clearly has illustrated that the success of legitimate entrepreneurial endeavours is determined by a complex variety of factors that involve supply and demand, risk vs. return and opportunity vs. need, among others. Based upon field observations, interviews and a detailed survey conducted during the summers of 2005 and 2006, our investigation of the small business street vendor system in Alicante illustrates that these entrepreneurial factors also define and affect the illegal enterprises established by a largely undocumented immigrant population. Despite the apparent simplicity of the street vendor network, both the wholesale and retail systems in Alicante are highly complex and structured, and they work to minimise risk to street entrepreneurs while providing greater economic returns to a large and highly diverse population.
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The concept of loyalty and the challenge of internationalisation in post-modern Spanish Football
More LessSome aspects of what Giulianotti has called the post-modern era of football are studied in the context of Spain. The changing relations among players, clubs and fans are studied around the concept of loyalty, first between players and fans, second between players and clubs, and third between fans and clubs. Post-modern football has eroded those kinds of loyalty; however, whereas Spanish football shows typical symptoms, there are pockets of resistance where traditional relations are valorised, maintained and even commodified. The article also touches on issues crucial to contemporary Spanish culture, such as regional rivalries, identity, globalisation and nationalism.
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The Work-Life Balance I New gendered relationships in Spain: the other in the care triangle
Authors: Constanza Tobo and Magdalena Daz GorfinkielSpanish couples have found new ways of organising their productive and reproductive lives within the domestic sphere. The increasing role of women in the labour market provides the basis for these new domestic structures, yet few social policies have been advanced to create greater compatibility between the worlds of work and home. Mothers of the new generation have to think of strategies to reconcile their labour and family life, with the employment of domestic service emerging as one of the most significant alternatives in recent years. On the other hand, immigration has suffered many changes, the most important being its increase and its feminisation. This is the result of the transformations experienced by the countries of origin of the migrants, including free-movers from the European Union, as well as the consequence of the creation of a new demand for workers in the receiver countries. Female employers and domestic employees meet each other in one home that of the working Spanish mother now characterised by ethnic or cultural diversity and the permanent negotiation of individual, familial and group identities. The article analyses the discourse of working mothers who employ domestic service to care for their children, as well as the discourse of female migrant/immigrant domestic workers from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America.
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The Work-Life Balance II Informe de investigacin Conciliacin entre la vida personal, familiar y laboral en Espaa
More LessThis report presents a summary of the results of a sociological study funded by the EU's Directorate-General for Research. The study, called Conciliacin y empleabilidad, investigated the work-life balance the goal of reconciling the demands of employment, family, and personal life in the case of Spain. The aim was to identify strategies that facilitate sustainable balance between the three. The results covered personal and family strategies that make such a reconciliation easier and contribute towards employability; strategies arising out of the context of the workplace and labour organization; and strategies observed in particular experiences and case studies. It concludes that the complexity and diversity of social situations poses many challenges to the desired work-life balance and requires ambitious and imaginative efforts by all the actors involved if it is to be achieved.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Hugh O'Donnell, Lesley Twomey,, Maria Lamuedra Gravan, Nicholas Boalch, Carmen Ros and Niamh ThorntonWhen Beckham went to Spain: Power, Stardom and Real Madrid, Jimmy Burns (2004) London: Michael Joseph (an imprint of Penguin Books), 412 pp., ISBN 0-718-14747-2 (hbk), 16.99
Foundations of National Identity: From Catalonia to Europe, Josep R. Llobera (2004) Oxford: Berghahn, ix + 215 pp., ISBN 1-57181-612-7 (hbk), 50; 1-84545-042-6 (pbk), 14.95
Cinematergrafa: la madre en el cine y la literatura de la democracia, Mara Jos Gmez Fuentes (2004) Coleccin Sendes, 6, Castelln: Ellago Ediciones, 272 pp., ISBN 84-95881-42-X (pbk), 20
Escribir la catalanidad: Lengua e identidades culturales en la narrativa contempornea de Catalua, Stewart King (2005) Monografas A, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, Tamesis, ISBN 1855661160 (hbk), 45
Spanish Pragmatics, Rosina Mrquez Reiter and Mara Elena Placencia (2005) Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, x + 284 pp., ISBN 1-4039-00701 (hbk), 58; ISBN 1-4039-00-X (pbk), 18.99
Carmen on Screen: An Annotated Filmography and Bibliography, Ann Davies and Phil Powrie (2006) Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series 7, 133 pp., ISBN 1855661292 (hbk), 40; ISBN 1855661295 (pbk)
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 37 (2024)
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Volume 36 (2023)
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Volume 35 (2022)
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Volume 34 (2021)
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Volume 33 (2020)
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Volume 32 (2019)
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Volume 31 (2018)
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Volume 30 (2017)
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Volume 29 (2016)
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Volume 28 (2015)
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Volume 27 (2014)
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Volume 26 (2013)
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Volume 25 (2012)
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Volume 24 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 23 (2010)
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Volume 22 (2009)
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Volume 21 (2008)
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Volume 20 (2007)
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Volume 19 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 18 (2005)
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Volume 17 (2004)
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Volume 16 (2003 - 2004)
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Volume 15 (2002 - 2003)
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Volume 14 (2001)