Ep 50: Immigration and Housing Precarity with Carlos Delclós

In the years leading up to the Global Financial Crisis, Spain’s housing prices doubled and its immigrant population increased by 1000%. How did immigrants fare when the market crashed? Carlos Delclós joins us to discuss the “citizen gradient” among Spanish citizens, EU citizens living in Spain, and non-EU citizens and how citizenship status influences housing precarity and displacement outcomes.

Show notes:

• Delclós, C. (2022). The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash. European Urban and Regional Studies.
• Ealham, C. (2010). Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937. AK Press.https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764221136092
• Interactive FRED graph of real residential property prices for select countries, including Spain.
• Gonick, S. L. (2021). Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid. Stanford University Press.
• Clair, A., Reeves, A., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2019). Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(1), 13-28.
• Kain, J. F., & Quigley, J. M. (1972). Housing market discrimination, home-ownership, and savings behavior. The American Economic Review, 62(3), 263-277.
• Taylor, K. Y. (2019). Race for Profit: How banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership. UNC Press Books.
• Yiftachel, O. (2020). From displacement to displaceability: A southeastern perspective on the new metropolis. City, 24(1-2), 151-165.
• Caroz-Armayones, J. M., Benach, J., Delclós, C., & Julià, M. (2022). The double burden of precariousness: linking housing, employment, and perceived stress–a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 1-10.
• Housing Voice ep. 49 with Sorcha Edwards, on sustaining and growing Europe’s social housing.