Abstract
This article asks how socioculturally inspired questions can be illuminated by exploiting large demographic data sets. Focusing on people represented in the annually updated Spanish Municipal Register (the Padrón Municipal) who report themselves as citizens of countries outside Spain, it treats demographic numbers as texts that can speak to us as plainly as words about something as challenging as the dynamics of identity and belonging.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 103-111 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Anthropological Theory |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2010 |
Keywords
- Africa
- Gambia
- Spain
- census
- citizenship
- demography
- migration
- numerical data
- vital register
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)