ABSTRACT
This chapter dealswith urban interactions and the demands for policy response, whether in Barcelona, with a relatively limited foreign population or Amsterdam, which Philomena Essed suggests might reach 50% non-white by the year 2000. It focuses on processual aspects of the redefinition of a European self for the redefinition of the other. The chapter provides recognition of the complex problems with regard to 1992. It draws on field materials from Barcelona, interviews and travel in other contemporary European cities, and extensive analysis of press, cultural media and published studies. The chapter examines the questions raised by new European Community immigration between two worlds and European responses, both for 1992 and for generations beyond. Estimates of immigrants of "color" in Europe range from 7 to 13 million, roughly 2-4% of the total EC population. These include 4.5 million in France, 2.5 million in Britain, 1.8 million in Germany and 800,000 in Spain.
