Josefina Domínguez-Mujica
Biographic Data
| ID | 1016962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josefina Domínguez-Mujica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josefina |
| FAMILY NAME | Domínguez-Mujica |
| SIGNATURE | DOMÍNGUEZ-MUJICA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7460-5553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Coastal waterfront and urban development in Spanish medium-sized cities: Insights from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
Urban waterfront development has undergone significant transformations throughout history, driven by shifting economic imperatives, social dynamics, and environmental considerations. Once primarily functional spaces, waterfronts have emerged as focal points of urban regeneration. While extensive scholarship has examined the redevelopment of major metropolitan waterfronts – often framed within the broader transition from Fordist industrial economi…
Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Rural Tourism in a Left-Behind Region, Sayago (Zamora, Spain)
Rural Sayago (Zamora, Spain), on the Portuguese border, exemplifies long-term depopulation and ageing processes in Southern Europe. This study examines the tourism-migration nexus, asking how tourism development influences the arrival, settlement and economic incorporation of internal and international immigrants. We combine qualitative fieldwork from two projects—semi-structured interviews with migrant entrepreneurs in accommodation, hospitality…
Islandness, Human Mobility and Left-Behindness: Insights from El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain
The relationship between left-behindness and islandness is intricate and multifaceted. Small and peripheral islands are particularly susceptible to environmental challenges and economic downturns due to their limited resources for survival, which have historically shaped them as left-behind areas. However, while islands have long been viewed as places of departure, they also function as hubs for migrants, asylum seekers, tourists, and returnees, …
Cuban Women in the Canary Islands (Spain): Coping with Deskilling and Reinventing Transnational Reproductive Practices
Since the turn of the century, the Cuban community on the Canary Islands has grown steadily due to a generationally deferred migration, built on the connections established by former Canarian emigrants and favoured by the possibility of obtaining Spanish citizenship. In general, in this EU outermost region, the role of Latin American immigrant women is of great importance, but in the case of Cuban, due to significant changes inherent in migration…
Género, colonización y aculturación en la provincia española del Sáhara (1885-1975)
Bajo el título de “Género, colonización y aculturación en la provincia española del Sahara (1885-1975)” analizamos la influencia de la colonización española en la construcción de la identidad de la mujer saharaui desde un enfoque interseccional. En este artículo se ofrece una interpretación acerca de cómo la colonización pudo afectar a su educación, a su posición en la sociedad y a su vida cotidiana. Se analiza, también, en profundidad, a partir …
Neo‐Endogenous Local Development, Tourism, and International Immigration in El Hierro, Spain
This article studies the role of international immigrants on enhancing economic and social diversity in El Hierro, potentially attracting more people, investment, and valorising local communities. It emphasizes the key characteristics of immigrants' entrepreneurs, including their diverse backgrounds as lifestyle/labour immigrants, competence in languages, typically low initial capitalization and often lack of prior entrepreneurial experience. Des…
Islands on the move: Non-mass tourism and migration in El Hierro (Spain) and Pico (Portugal)
This paper examines migration inflows in El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) and Pico (Azores, Portugal) and their relationship with tourism. It investigates how immigrants' work-life transitions are linked to tourism involvement, highlighting how migration reshapes the islands' economies. Immigrants contribute to shifting the productive model from pre-tourism structures to economies increasingly dominated by tourism. The analysis concludes that th…
Transoceanic migration linkages: Human mobility’s past and present between the Canary Islands and Latin America and the Caribbean
The intensity of migratory processes has been a characteristic common to many of the Earth's island spaces which, throughout history, have been projected outwards thanks to the special connectivity that originated the voyages of colonization and, later, the processes of globalization of capitalism, among which tourist activity has had a special impact. All this has forged close relations between the island populations and other peoples in distant…
The Time-Space Regimes of Human Mobility in the North Atlantic Island Spaces (Iceland, Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde)
Throughout history the North Atlantic archipelagos have projected themselves outwards thanks to travel and the innate capacity of their inhabitants to relate to other peoples. This research aims to reveal their nodal character on the stage of global mobility, using a detailed statistical analysis of their migration trends since the 1960s. To this end, it is necessary to recognise the rhythms of the migration transition and its parallelism with th…
Border control and accident rate of irregular immigration in the route to the Canary Islands (Spain) during the Covid-19 pandemic
Throughout the first decades of the 21st century, the maritime borders of the European Union have witnessed a growing and increasingly complex mobility of an irregular nature. Moreover, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on many African countries revealed the weakness of the maritime border and its permeability, as well as its increased danger. This research aims to study these irregular migration flows by sea during 2020 and 2021, through the At…
Older adult Cubans moving to the Canary Islands (Spain): Migrants' strategies in later life
The research on migration to Spain of Cuban citizens in later life proposes to overcome the lack of academic knowledge from these analytical perspectives: migrations of older adult people beyond the issue of lifestyle mobility; the transnational diasporic nexus favoring migrations; and the Cuban community residing abroad, outside the United States of America. The combination of these elements in this case study shows the agency of older adult Cub…
Mapping foreign immigration in Spain (1998–2018). Trends and spatial patterns
The last 20 years of sociodemographic history in Spain cannot be interpreted without considering the impact of foreign immigration, numerous publications have shown. The aim of this article is to contribute a clear spatial representation of migrants in Spain by combining statistical and mapping methods. Maps showing the rate of variation of immigrant populations point to the existence of an uneven distribution around Spain, during both the period…
Patrimonio urbano y alojamientos turísticos en Cienfuegos (Cuba)
La conservación de las ciudades cubanas Patrimonio de la Humanidad se basa en iniciativas públicas que afrontan la rehabilitación de inmuebles de reconocido valor arquitectónico, al mismo tiempo que muchos otros edificios mantienen sus características originales gracias a la inversión de pequeños emprendedores turísticos. El análisis de estas intervenciones en Cienfuegos, a partir de un riguroso trabajo de campo, es el objetivo del artículo. Para…
The Urban Mirror of the Socioeconomic Transformations in Spain
This study offers an interpretation of the most significant characteristics of Spanish cities in the post-Fordist capitalist era, as a mirror of the economic and social transformations that have led to them, differentiating: (i) the stage of economic expansion at the turn of the century; (ii) the stage of the economic crisis from 2008 onwards; and (iii) the uncertain times we face for the future. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify th…
Gentrification on the Move. New Dynamics in Spanish Mature Urban-Tourist Neighborhoods
Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism involvement, development, and consolidation; those of stagnation and urban decline; and those of tourism rejuvenation and urban rehabilitation. Currently, there are indications of a fourth cycle, where vac…
El sistema migratorio de Latinoamérica-España: Ha sido la crisis económica un paréntesis
La inmigración desde Latinoamérica y el Caribe hacia España en el cambio de siglo ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios, pues dio lugar a flujos de una gran cuantía en tiempos de expansión económica (1998-2007), cuando el mercado de trabajo español demandaba mano de obra en los segmentos secundarios. Desde 2008 se produjo una reducción de las entradas, así como el incremento de los procesos de retorno y de reemigración, en consonancia con la inten…
Foreclosures and Evictions in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Period in Spain
At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the number of foreclosures and evictions increased dramatically in Spain. The severe economic situation and the lack of mitigation measures by public institutions seemed to be the main causes. However, the start of a period of economic recovery since 2014 has meant that the number of the evictions continues to increase. In this article, we analyze in detail this phenomenon in the city of Las Palmas…
Introduction
A psychological perspective on adjustment of recent immigrants from Southern Europe in Germany. The correlation of adjustment with return intentions and personality predispositions for successfull adj…
The economic crisis and the Southern European migration model
Many scholars from social sciences have considered Southern Europe, referring to Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, an area of common features with regard to political integration into the European Union, development of the welfare state and demographic and migration evolution, among other issues. The aim of this chapter is to draw attention to the recent demographic and migration history of Southern Europe, in order to offer an interpretation of…
European Mobility in Times of Crisis: The New Context of European South-North Migration
On the trail of social relations in the colonial Sahara: A postcolonial reading
The Atlantic coast of the Sahara Desert was belatedly colonised by Spain. The paternalistic nature of this process and the collaboration of Sahrawi tribal leaders produced a specific type of colonial relations. The military hierarchy of colonial structures overlapped with the social stratification of Sahrawi tribes. Yet outside the upper echelons of Sahrawi authorities and Spanish military officers, daily life in the colony was defined by interac…
Global Change and Human Mobility
Postcolonial migrations and diasporic linkages between Latin America and Japan and Spain
In the late 1980s, both Japan and Spain revised their legislation to confer preferential immigration rights to citizens from former colonies or their own diasporic descendants based on historical, cultural or ethnic belonging to the ancestral homeland. During the economic crisis, Spain, in 2008, and Japan, in 2009, reversed their policies through a government-sponsored voluntary return program for these preferred migrants. When the economy recove…
Interpreting autobiographies in migration research: Narratives of J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain)
Within the context of recent epistemological and methodological turns in geography and social sciences, this paper explores the use of autobiographical narratives in international migration research and learning through the analysis of three books written by J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain). These narratives were interpreted by focusing on their content from a categorical perspective, using a type of reading known tradition…
Migration at a Time of Global Economic Crisis: The Situation in Spain
In this paper, we offer an initial assessment of the impact of the economic crisis on Spain's migration flows. After a period of intensive economic growth and the ensuing immigratory appeal (1995–2007), Spain has been hit hard by the recession. This has modified the trends that had so far characterized foreign immigration in Spain. The impact of the economic recession has been particularly severe in the case of immigrant workers and, consequently…
Tourism and human mobility in Spanish Archipelagos
The in-between lives of Japanese immigrants in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Over the past 20 years, the theoretical frameworks of population mobility studies have undergone profound changes. The redefinition of the term diaspora, the rise of transnational analysis, the formulation of the embodied experiences of migration, the increasing interest in migrants' attachment to places, gendered expectations and transcultural processes have coalesced to enrich knowledge. This article explores the culturally mediated experiences…
Gentrification on the Move. New Dynamics in Spanish Mature Urban-Tourist Neighborhoods
Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism involvement, development, and consolidation; those of stagnation and urban decline; and those of tourism rejuvenation and urban rehabilitation. Currently, there are indications of a fourth cycle, where vac…
On the trail of social relations in the colonial Sahara: A postcolonial reading
The Atlantic coast of the Sahara Desert was belatedly colonised by Spain. The paternalistic nature of this process and the collaboration of Sahrawi tribal leaders produced a specific type of colonial relations. The military hierarchy of colonial structures overlapped with the social stratification of Sahrawi tribes. Yet outside the upper echelons of Sahrawi authorities and Spanish military officers, daily life in the colony was defined by interac…
Postcolonial migrations and diasporic linkages between Latin America and Japan and Spain
In the late 1980s, both Japan and Spain revised their legislation to confer preferential immigration rights to citizens from former colonies or their own diasporic descendants based on historical, cultural or ethnic belonging to the ancestral homeland. During the economic crisis, Spain, in 2008, and Japan, in 2009, reversed their policies through a government-sponsored voluntary return program for these preferred migrants. When the economy recove…
Interpreting autobiographies in migration research: Narratives of J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain)
Within the context of recent epistemological and methodological turns in geography and social sciences, this paper explores the use of autobiographical narratives in international migration research and learning through the analysis of three books written by J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain). These narratives were interpreted by focusing on their content from a categorical perspective, using a type of reading known tradition…
Older adult Cubans moving to the Canary Islands (Spain): Migrants' strategies in later life
The research on migration to Spain of Cuban citizens in later life proposes to overcome the lack of academic knowledge from these analytical perspectives: migrations of older adult people beyond the issue of lifestyle mobility; the transnational diasporic nexus favoring migrations; and the Cuban community residing abroad, outside the United States of America. The combination of these elements in this case study shows the agency of older adult Cub…
The Urban Mirror of the Socioeconomic Transformations in Spain
This study offers an interpretation of the most significant characteristics of Spanish cities in the post-Fordist capitalist era, as a mirror of the economic and social transformations that have led to them, differentiating: (i) the stage of economic expansion at the turn of the century; (ii) the stage of the economic crisis from 2008 onwards; and (iii) the uncertain times we face for the future. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify th…
Foreclosures and Evictions in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Period in Spain
At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the number of foreclosures and evictions increased dramatically in Spain. The severe economic situation and the lack of mitigation measures by public institutions seemed to be the main causes. However, the start of a period of economic recovery since 2014 has meant that the number of the evictions continues to increase. In this article, we analyze in detail this phenomenon in the city of Las Palmas…
Tourism and human mobility in Spanish Archipelagos
The in-between lives of Japanese immigrants in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Over the past 20 years, the theoretical frameworks of population mobility studies have undergone profound changes. The redefinition of the term diaspora, the rise of transnational analysis, the formulation of the embodied experiences of migration, the increasing interest in migrants' attachment to places, gendered expectations and transcultural processes have coalesced to enrich knowledge. This article explores the culturally mediated experiences…
Migration at a Time of Global Economic Crisis: The Situation in Spain
In this paper, we offer an initial assessment of the impact of the economic crisis on Spain's migration flows. After a period of intensive economic growth and the ensuing immigratory appeal (1995–2007), Spain has been hit hard by the recession. This has modified the trends that had so far characterized foreign immigration in Spain. The impact of the economic recession has been particularly severe in the case of immigrant workers and, consequently…
Interpreting autobiographies in migration research: Narratives of J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain)
Within the context of recent epistemological and methodological turns in geography and social sciences, this paper explores the use of autobiographical narratives in international migration research and learning through the analysis of three books written by J apanese returnees from the C anary I slands ( S pain). These narratives were interpreted by focusing on their content from a categorical perspective, using a type of reading known tradition…
Postcolonial migrations and diasporic linkages between Latin America and Japan and Spain
In the late 1980s, both Japan and Spain revised their legislation to confer preferential immigration rights to citizens from former colonies or their own diasporic descendants based on historical, cultural or ethnic belonging to the ancestral homeland. During the economic crisis, Spain, in 2008, and Japan, in 2009, reversed their policies through a government-sponsored voluntary return program for these preferred migrants. When the economy recove…
Global Change and Human Mobility
Introduction
A psychological perspective on adjustment of recent immigrants from Southern Europe in Germany. The correlation of adjustment with return intentions and personality predispositions for successfull adj…
The economic crisis and the Southern European migration model
Many scholars from social sciences have considered Southern Europe, referring to Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, an area of common features with regard to political integration into the European Union, development of the welfare state and demographic and migration evolution, among other issues. The aim of this chapter is to draw attention to the recent demographic and migration history of Southern Europe, in order to offer an interpretation of…
European Mobility in Times of Crisis: The New Context of European South-North Migration
On the trail of social relations in the colonial Sahara: A postcolonial reading
The Atlantic coast of the Sahara Desert was belatedly colonised by Spain. The paternalistic nature of this process and the collaboration of Sahrawi tribal leaders produced a specific type of colonial relations. The military hierarchy of colonial structures overlapped with the social stratification of Sahrawi tribes. Yet outside the upper echelons of Sahrawi authorities and Spanish military officers, daily life in the colony was defined by interac…
Foreclosures and Evictions in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Period in Spain
At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the number of foreclosures and evictions increased dramatically in Spain. The severe economic situation and the lack of mitigation measures by public institutions seemed to be the main causes. However, the start of a period of economic recovery since 2014 has meant that the number of the evictions continues to increase. In this article, we analyze in detail this phenomenon in the city of Las Palmas…
El sistema migratorio de Latinoamérica-España: Ha sido la crisis económica un paréntesis
La inmigración desde Latinoamérica y el Caribe hacia España en el cambio de siglo ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios, pues dio lugar a flujos de una gran cuantía en tiempos de expansión económica (1998-2007), cuando el mercado de trabajo español demandaba mano de obra en los segmentos secundarios. Desde 2008 se produjo una reducción de las entradas, así como el incremento de los procesos de retorno y de reemigración, en consonancia con la inten…
Mapping foreign immigration in Spain (1998–2018). Trends and spatial patterns
The last 20 years of sociodemographic history in Spain cannot be interpreted without considering the impact of foreign immigration, numerous publications have shown. The aim of this article is to contribute a clear spatial representation of migrants in Spain by combining statistical and mapping methods. Maps showing the rate of variation of immigrant populations point to the existence of an uneven distribution around Spain, during both the period…
Patrimonio urbano y alojamientos turísticos en Cienfuegos (Cuba)
La conservación de las ciudades cubanas Patrimonio de la Humanidad se basa en iniciativas públicas que afrontan la rehabilitación de inmuebles de reconocido valor arquitectónico, al mismo tiempo que muchos otros edificios mantienen sus características originales gracias a la inversión de pequeños emprendedores turísticos. El análisis de estas intervenciones en Cienfuegos, a partir de un riguroso trabajo de campo, es el objetivo del artículo. Para…
The Urban Mirror of the Socioeconomic Transformations in Spain
This study offers an interpretation of the most significant characteristics of Spanish cities in the post-Fordist capitalist era, as a mirror of the economic and social transformations that have led to them, differentiating: (i) the stage of economic expansion at the turn of the century; (ii) the stage of the economic crisis from 2008 onwards; and (iii) the uncertain times we face for the future. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify th…
Gentrification on the Move. New Dynamics in Spanish Mature Urban-Tourist Neighborhoods
Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism involvement, development, and consolidation; those of stagnation and urban decline; and those of tourism rejuvenation and urban rehabilitation. Currently, there are indications of a fourth cycle, where vac…
Older adult Cubans moving to the Canary Islands (Spain): Migrants' strategies in later life
The research on migration to Spain of Cuban citizens in later life proposes to overcome the lack of academic knowledge from these analytical perspectives: migrations of older adult people beyond the issue of lifestyle mobility; the transnational diasporic nexus favoring migrations; and the Cuban community residing abroad, outside the United States of America. The combination of these elements in this case study shows the agency of older adult Cub…
Border control and accident rate of irregular immigration in the route to the Canary Islands (Spain) during the Covid-19 pandemic
Throughout the first decades of the 21st century, the maritime borders of the European Union have witnessed a growing and increasingly complex mobility of an irregular nature. Moreover, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on many African countries revealed the weakness of the maritime border and its permeability, as well as its increased danger. This research aims to study these irregular migration flows by sea during 2020 and 2021, through the At…
Transoceanic migration linkages: Human mobility’s past and present between the Canary Islands and Latin America and the Caribbean
The intensity of migratory processes has been a characteristic common to many of the Earth's island spaces which, throughout history, have been projected outwards thanks to the special connectivity that originated the voyages of colonization and, later, the processes of globalization of capitalism, among which tourist activity has had a special impact. All this has forged close relations between the island populations and other peoples in distant…
The Time-Space Regimes of Human Mobility in the North Atlantic Island Spaces (Iceland, Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde)
Throughout history the North Atlantic archipelagos have projected themselves outwards thanks to travel and the innate capacity of their inhabitants to relate to other peoples. This research aims to reveal their nodal character on the stage of global mobility, using a detailed statistical analysis of their migration trends since the 1960s. To this end, it is necessary to recognise the rhythms of the migration transition and its parallelism with th…
Cuban Women in the Canary Islands (Spain): Coping with Deskilling and Reinventing Transnational Reproductive Practices
Since the turn of the century, the Cuban community on the Canary Islands has grown steadily due to a generationally deferred migration, built on the connections established by former Canarian emigrants and favoured by the possibility of obtaining Spanish citizenship. In general, in this EU outermost region, the role of Latin American immigrant women is of great importance, but in the case of Cuban, due to significant changes inherent in migration…
Género, colonización y aculturación en la provincia española del Sáhara (1885-1975)
Bajo el título de “Género, colonización y aculturación en la provincia española del Sahara (1885-1975)” analizamos la influencia de la colonización española en la construcción de la identidad de la mujer saharaui desde un enfoque interseccional. En este artículo se ofrece una interpretación acerca de cómo la colonización pudo afectar a su educación, a su posición en la sociedad y a su vida cotidiana. Se analiza, también, en profundidad, a partir …
Neo‐Endogenous Local Development, Tourism, and International Immigration in El Hierro, Spain
This article studies the role of international immigrants on enhancing economic and social diversity in El Hierro, potentially attracting more people, investment, and valorising local communities. It emphasizes the key characteristics of immigrants' entrepreneurs, including their diverse backgrounds as lifestyle/labour immigrants, competence in languages, typically low initial capitalization and often lack of prior entrepreneurial experience. Des…
Islands on the move: Non-mass tourism and migration in El Hierro (Spain) and Pico (Portugal)
This paper examines migration inflows in El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) and Pico (Azores, Portugal) and their relationship with tourism. It investigates how immigrants' work-life transitions are linked to tourism involvement, highlighting how migration reshapes the islands' economies. Immigrants contribute to shifting the productive model from pre-tourism structures to economies increasingly dominated by tourism. The analysis concludes that th…
Political science (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (16 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Economic geography (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economy (7 works) · Development economics (6 works)