ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper focuses in how the arrival of new inhabitants, with a different social and cultural background, affects the valuation of a privileged territory. We do a comparison between two areas (one rural, and one urban) from Andalusia: the Guadalfeo Basin and the Albayzin neighbourhood in Granada. Part of the scientific literature on the subject uses the term “rural gentrification” to explain this kind of changes in the countryside, extrapolating a concept initially coined in urban contexts. Including the Albayzin allow us to find similarities, differences and links between both kinds of areas. Two data sources are used. First, a quantitative analysis of the censuses is carried out in order to study the specificity of migration dynamics in the two areas. Second, and more relevant, we analyse the social discourses of the new inhabitants about the spatial and social move they have undergone (and the reactions from the former population), through a number of interviews.
