The Other Catalans: Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature

The first book to explore how Catalan literature has depicted the social and cultural consequences of immigration in the twentieth century.

Catalonia has for centuries been a destination for immigrants: first from neighboring regions, then from all over Spain, and in the last twenty-five years from the whole world. Currently, sixteen percent of the Catalan population was born outside Spain, and well over seventy-five percent of Catalans have a migrant origin. Yet the Catalans see themselves...