Olatz Ribera-Almandoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olatz Ribera-Almandoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olatz |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribera-Almandoz |
| SIGNATURE | RIBERA-ALMANDOZ O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5261-8975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona
This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article concept…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
Health movements in the age of austerity: Rescaling resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom
Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity measures have been promoted in many European countries. Frequently justified as a form of crisis-management, these measures have been used to further privatise and deregulate welfare systems, as well as to reinforce the isolation of certain decision-making arenas from democratic processes. At the same time, they have also generated new strategic opportunities for …
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe
Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this per…
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting Neoliberal Europe
Beyond left melancholy
When Corporatism Fails: Trade Union Strategies and Grassroots Resistance to the Spanish Economic Crisis
This article analyses the fragmented working class struggles that emerged in Spain after the eruption of the economic crisis in 2008–2010. Through the use of qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews and activist participant observation, the article traces the progressive institutionalization of the major Spanish trade unions—Comisiones Obreras and Union General de Trabajadores—, which during the crisis have prioritized the defense of soci…
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
When Corporatism Fails: Trade Union Strategies and Grassroots Resistance to the Spanish Economic Crisis
This article analyses the fragmented working class struggles that emerged in Spain after the eruption of the economic crisis in 2008–2010. Through the use of qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews and activist participant observation, the article traces the progressive institutionalization of the major Spanish trade unions—Comisiones Obreras and Union General de Trabajadores—, which during the crisis have prioritized the defense of soci…
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe
Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this per…
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting Neoliberal Europe
Beyond left melancholy
When Corporatism Fails: Trade Union Strategies and Grassroots Resistance to the Spanish Economic Crisis
This article analyses the fragmented working class struggles that emerged in Spain after the eruption of the economic crisis in 2008–2010. Through the use of qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews and activist participant observation, the article traces the progressive institutionalization of the major Spanish trade unions—Comisiones Obreras and Union General de Trabajadores—, which during the crisis have prioritized the defense of soci…
Health movements in the age of austerity: Rescaling resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom
Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity measures have been promoted in many European countries. Frequently justified as a form of crisis-management, these measures have been used to further privatise and deregulate welfare systems, as well as to reinforce the isolation of certain decision-making arenas from democratic processes. At the same time, they have also generated new strategic opportunities for …
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain
In 2019, Spain had the third highest number of asylum applications in the Europen Union, after Germany and France. The number of asylum applications grew from 31,120 in 2017 to 55,668 in 2018 and 118,264 in 2019. Following this exponential increase, the number of accommodation places in the state reception system has risen almost proportionally. In this changing context, this article seeks to explain the regulation of asylum accommodation in Spai…
Our home, your home?’ The precarious housing pathways of asylum seekers in Catalonia
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi…
Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona
This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article concept…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Austerity (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works)