During the last few years, Sant Joan Despí has grown from migratory processes that have contributed to the diversity that characterizes the Sant Joan neighborhood. In the last half century, the town has welcomed people from different parts of the world, expanding the population's diversity of origins, a phenomenon experienced by the whole of Catalonia. However, this process is not simple, it requires a mutual adaptation of the peoplewho arrive and those who were already there; there is a lack of knowledge, stereotypes and prejudices prevail and there is a lack of experience of living together.

All these dynamics are aggravated by the geographical structure of the city. It is a territory with neighborhoods divided by an industrial area in the process of being dismantled. In this sense, the various demographic transformations of recent years have been creating neighborhoods with very different social, economic, and cultural characteristics, which has become a situation of coexistence, rather than coexistence, on the part of the neighborhood.

Challenge Providers

Hosting University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Stakeholder: Sant Joan Despí City Council