Open AccessAnálisis discursivo sobre el sentido de comunidad de los latinoamericanos en Málaga
Author(s) -
Mario Millán Franco,
Laura Domínguez de la Rosa,
Luís Gómez-Jacinto,
Isabel HombradosMendieta,
Isabel HombradosMendieta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
migraciones internacionales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2594-0279
pISSN - 1665-8906
DOI - 10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2137
Subject(s) - facilitator , sense of community , latin americans , sociology , residence , sense of place , humanities , social psychology , psychology , social science , linguistics , art , philosophy , demography
This article presents the results of a qualitative study whose interest lies in understanding how Latin Americans residing in Malaga build their sense of community. To collect information, 23 in-depth interviews were conducted with people from Latin America. Through a detailed analysis of these interviews, three Interpretative Repertoires were identified: The diffuse limits of the sense of community, communities as the backbone of the sense of community, and the language of love as a facilitator of the sense of community. The importance of formal and informal organizations for the development of a sense of local community is highlighted. The sense of community, related to the place of residence, is the result of a mental process of overlapping senses of community towards communities, where the language of love is the protagonist. A limitation, and the potential of this study, is that the sense of community is the subjective manifestation of the community, so the experiences of each person influence its social construction.