Argentinean and Ecuadorian immigrants in Barcelona and Milan: trajectories, urban dimension and cultural capital

Abstract

This paper presents some of the findings of a doctoral thesis on biographical trajectories of Argentinean and Ecuadorian immigrants in Barcelona (Spain) and Milano (Italy). These trajectories are characterized by the insertion of a given profile of immigrants characterized by a high volume of cultural and social capital in a city which is immersed in a process of transformation and in the transit from a service economy to an industrial economy. The paper emphasizes precisely the urban dimensions of integration.