ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the changing conditions in Mediterranean city, and how these changes can shed light on local factors that may influence migrant decision making of persons from Sub-Saharan Africa moving to and through the Mediterranean. It highlights the emerging contexts in which migrant decision-making is increasingly linked to struggles for and over urban space, which have become a global feature of the modern era. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, African migration to developed countries is marginal in relation to overall flows. The growing immigration of Africans from Sub-Saharan countries with no historical or colonial ties to Spain is a fairly recent phenomenon. The birthplace of the Nave, Poblenou, is an area that has deep historical roots with working class labour movements and autonomy struggles. The assemble brought together national and neighbourhood associations, community movements and religious groups by appealing to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
