Juan Manuel Parreño-Castellano

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | ULPGC · Department of Geography

This article studies the role of international immigrants on enhancing economic and social diversity in El Hierro, potentially attracting more people, investment, and valorising local communities. It emphasizes the key characteristics of immigrants´ entrepreneurs, including their diverse backgrounds as lifestyle/labour immigrants, competence in lan...

La trashumancia es un modelo de gestión territorial basado en un proceso de aprendizaje adaptativo que se muestra en el conocimiento ecológico acumulado por los ganaderos trashumantes durante generaciones y que configura unos paisajes de altísimo valor patrimonial. El objetivo de nuestro estudio es realizar una radiografía del estado actual de la t...

La expansión del SARS-CoV-2 originó una gran transformación en la movilidad a escala global y local, pues a la inmovilidad forzada se sumó la modificación de las pautas de desplazamiento cotidiano y de variación residencial. La estructura territorial tuvo un papel decisivo en ella, siendo fundamental la conformación insular en el caso de Canarias....

One of the urban spaces that best identify Spanish developmentalist cities lies on their outlying residential fringes. Built between the 1960s and the 1980s, they are dense, mono-functional areas, largely developed at the initiative of the public authorities during the Fordist stage. Areas initially planned to accommodate marginalized domestic migr...

During the pandemic, the geographical study of housing has acquired a new dimension because of the relationship forged between residents and this living space in a situation of containment of mobility and impediment to use the public and community space. It is from this perspective that this research on the metropolitan areas of the capital cities...

Throughout the first decades of the 21st century, the maritime borders of the European Union have witnessed a growing and increasingly complex mobility of an irregular nature. Moreover, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on many African countries revealed the weakness of the maritime border and its permeability, as well as its increased danger. Thi...

La vivienda de uso turístico es una forma de alojamiento pujante en España que suscita un gran interés entre académicos de diversas disciplinas. La mayor parte de los estudios se han centrado en aspectos regulatorios, en el tipo de negocio y en el impacto que genera sobre la actividad turística, la economía, los espacios urbanos, la población y el...

Two of the main problems of the current urbanization process are job insecurity and the increase in social inequalities in the city, which, among other factors, are linked to impoverishment and greater vulnerability, segregation and social polarization. Ultimately, these factors are mainly responsible for the configuration of a new spatial order, i...

El mapa constituye un instrumento indispensable en el quehacer geográfico ya que puede ser utilizado como fundamento externo de acciones internas para activar y desarrollar procesos del pensamiento. Por esta razón, es importante enseñar a comprender el lenguaje cartográfico y a construir significados a partir del mismo, competencias que parecen lej...

La lectura de mapas es una competencia pendiente para los estudiantes universitarios. Es el caso de los del Grado en Turismo de las universidades de Las Palmas de G.C., en España, y Autónoma de Juárez, en México, que usan los mapas para la comprensión de la realidad turística sin que hayan adquirido una alfabetización cartográfica suficiente.Esta c...

To the extent that digital capitalism and globalization processes have been developing, the arrival of digital nomads has grown in Spain. With the pandemic, this mobility was affected to a lesser magnitude than other types of flow. In this context, this paper deals with the study of the characteristics of digital nomads and the policies developed t...

POSTER for Feria Internacional del Mar 2022 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canarias) es una capital insular que, dada su especialización urbano-turística, atrae visitantes, turistas y migrantes extranjeros. En el cambio de siglo, durante el periodo de expansión económica, se incrementaron los flujos de inmigración laboral y afectaron, especialmente, al espacio central de la ciudad y al entorno...

This book assesses the drivers and impacts of new international residential mobilities by considering a range of mobilities in different countries across the globe from investment, amenity and retirement mobilities to those of the new global middle class and the transnational elites. It examines the intersection of these mobilities with the increas...

Since the 1990s, Cape Verde has been counting on tourism for its development, which has led to the construction of large tourist resorts in the areas of biggest interest for international investments. However, other smaller tourism infrastructures are being developed at the same time, by Cape Verdean investors and emigrants. This article analyses t...

Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections [...]

In pre-pandemic times, Spain was one of the European countries where the economic crisis hit the real estate market hardest, leading to rising mortgage foreclosures and eviction of tenants, as highlighted by many scholars on the financial geography of housing. Its matched social effects reveal the outstanding role of gender, foreign status, and inc...

Tras dos décadas convulsas para la ciudad en España, se están generando nuevos procesos de reconfiguración urbana en un contexto caracterizado, entre otros factores, por la desigualdad y los conflictos sociales, el envejecimiento de la población, las perspectivas de género, el aumento de la movilidad y las migraciones, la problemática ambiental y l...

Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism involvement, development, and consolidation; those of stagnation and urban decline; and those of tourism...

Los ecomuseos tienen el propósito de poner en valor los recursos patrimoniales de un territorio, promoviendo la conservación y la diferenciación identitaria del mismo y sus poblaciones. Se toma como caso de estudio el Proyecto Cultural de Desarrollo Comunitario de la Aldea en la isla de Gran Canaria (Islas Canarias, España), que entre sus actividad...

The last 20 years of sociodemographic history in Spain cannot be interpreted without considering the impact of foreign immigration, numerous publications have shown. The aim of this article is to contribute a clear spatial representation of migrants in Spain by combining statistical and mapping methods. Maps showing the rate of variation of immigra...

An ecomuseum orients its conservation, formation and reproduction of identity and patrimonial tasks based on the proximity to the territory and the population area it serves. This entails a flexible management system that adapts to contextual specificities of this socio‑cultural and geographical area, empowering local populations to govern themselv...

The legal proceedings of real estate dispossession are essential elements in understanding the impact of the economic crisis on Spanish cities. Those that took place between 2009 and 2017 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, their quantitative dimension and their intra-urban distribution are analysed in this study. This perspective allows an appreciation...

Esta comunicación es una aproximación al fenómeno de la emigración de jóvenes españoles en tiempos de crisis en un contexto condicionado por el mundo digital. Por ello aborda la realidad de los nuevos sistemas de comunicación y las redes sociales como un universo de posibilidades relacionadas con una nueva forma de comunicarse, informarse, relacion...

The growing presence of vacation rentals and international residential migrations are two phenomena determining the recent dynamics and urban structure of most Spanish Mediterranean and island cities. Tourists and migrants tend to be interested in the same urban spaces, and this tends to trigger gentrification, either by changes in the uses of real...

Canarias tiene un modelo urbanístico y territorial muy particular en el que más del 50% de su superficie es suelo de protección ambiental, lo que la convierte en un espacio frágil que exige preparar a los profesionales en temas de ordenación y planificación del territorio. El régimen urbanístico del suelo rústico forma parte de los contenidos de l...

p>La reciente crisis económica en España puso de manifiesto la debilidad de un modelo inmobiliario que se fundamentaba en un sobreendeudamiento, fomentado y alimentado por el sistema financiero y político. La quiebra de los fundamentos de dicho sistema originó, entre otras consecuencias socioeconómicas, un incremento de los desahucios y de las ejec...

En los años de expansión económica de inicios del siglo XXI y durante la crisis económica, a partir de 2008, se reconocen numerosas similitudes socio-demográficas por parte de España y Portugal. Dichas similitudes se aprecian tanto en relación al movimiento natural de la población como con respecto a los flujos migratorios. En este último caso, más...

Eight years after the economic crisis began in Spain (2008), its impact on migration trends is due for re-examination. The emigration of young Southern Europeans during the crisis, motivated by high unemployment and the lack of opportunities, has been analysed by various academics. These scholars have highlighted the modification of migration patte...

At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the number of foreclosures and evictions increased dramatically in Spain. The severe economic situation and the lack of mitigation measures by public institutions seemed to be the main causes. However, the start of a period of economic recovery since 2014 has meant that the number of the evictions co...

International mobility of young adult Spaniards eight years down the economic crisis

El análisis de las transformaciones urbanas que se han producido durante la grave crisis económica, financiera y de deuda, de los años 2008‐2016, está siendo objeto de estudio en el ámbito de la Geografía y, pese a la dificultad que representa la escasa perspectiva temporal, comienzan a evaluarse algunas de las nuevas dinámicas urbanas, en el marco...

Resumen: Uno de los capítulos de la historia del Archipiélago canario que ha concitado más atención por parte de los investigadores: geógrafos, antropólogos, sociólogos y, especialmente, historiadores, es el de la atracción por Latinoamérica, el destino más importante de las corrientes de emigración de canarios en el pasado más lejano, durante la e...

In recent years the number of persons forced into displacement as a result of wars and political instability has reached the highest levels in history. In 2015, there were 63.91 million people affected (UNHCR), half of whom came from ten countries: Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Central Afric...

This paper pursues two objectives: first, to determine the trends of seasonal and annual precipitation in the Canary Islands and, second, to identify trends in the daily precipitation concentration index (CI). For the first objective, we used data from 1970-2013 of 23 rainfall stations located on different islands, after verifying the homogeneity o...

The global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home. This volume compiles recent research results on European south-north migration, addressing migration processes and practices, the management of...

Spanish tourism destinations have received immigrant workers and retirees from Western and Northern Europe since the sixties. In this paper we focus on the specific group of the retirees who had worked previously in Spain with the objective to quantify them, to interpret the reasons why they migrated and have remained in the Spanish tourism areas,...

The Secondary and Vacational Homes in the Diversification of the Alojative Offer of the Canary Islands». The aim of this study, which is part of a larger project, is to provide an approach to better understanding of the regional and social consequences of the recent processes of extensive urbanization that has led to the spread of secondary, vacati...

Con el cambio de milenio, ha crecido de manera espectacular el número de extranjeros no comunitarios residentes en Canarias. Desde un primer momento, su cualificación les situó en los estratos económicos inferiores, lo que unido a su condición de extranjeros, les confirió una mayor vulnerabilidad social. La crisis económica iniciada en 2008 les ha...

El crecimiento demográfico de Fuerteventura de los últimos treinta años, a consecuencia de la intensa inmigración que ha originado el desarrollo turístico, ha modificado la estructura de asentamientos y ha dado lugar a un proceso de diferenciación residencial según orígenes de la población.

The sixties was a time of great interest for tourism development on the La Palma island. Various actions of public and private, as the policy of building a new airport, various tourist resorts, the tourism plan of 1968 or insular government also creating public entity "La Palma, Tourism SA” in 1969, will be the basis for future development of touri...

En el presente trabajo abordamos el estudio de la Reserva de la Biosfera de la isla de La Palma y de la dinámica de los nuevos usos turísticos que se están implantando con la finalidad de reflexionar sobre el modelo de desarrollo que implican. En el estudio se realiza una breve diagnosis de las principales características del modelo territorial de...

In this paper we study the Biosphere Reserve on the island of La Palma and the dynamics of new tourist uses that are being implemented in order to reflect on the development model involved. The study consists of a brief diagnosis of the main features of the territorial model of the island. Subsequently, we analyze the case of the Biosphere Reserve...

Recent demographic trends in the population of Spain, as in other Mediterranean countries, show a period of high net immigration in the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. In 2008, with the onset of the recession and the weakening of the Spanish job market, a new period of net emigration began. This phase has little in common...

Paper defended in the IGU Regional Conference 2015 Moskow

Una aproximación a la emigración española durante la crisis económica: herramientas de estudio (Resumen) Desde el inicio de la crisis económica en España (2008) se ha producido una importante migración de jóvenes españoles al exterior y este proceso ha despertado la atención de los investigadores y de los medios de comunicación. El análisis de la p...

From 1950 to 1975, Spain developed an active and effective colonisation process in Western Sahara, thanks to certain military actions such as the application of demographic measures favourable to immigrating Spanish population and to the settlement of nomad Saharans; the search and exploitation of mines; the encouragement of alphabetization and sch...

El estudio de la migración de retirados europeos en España ha sido objeto de atención de numerosos investigadores y ha cosechado importantes éxitos en la literatura especializada en las llamadas „lifestyle migrations‟. Por otra parte, también ha suscitado una importante atención la migración interna de retirados en distintos países como es el caso...

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En España residen numerosos jubilados extranjeros que proceden de países del oeste y norte de Europa, al igual que en otras áreas litorales del sur del continente. Este fenómeno se ha relacionado con procesos de inmigración residencial y con nuevas formas de especialización turístico-residencial, sin embargo, ciertos datos apuntan a la vinculación...

There are many retired foreigners residing in Spain that come from Western and Northern Europe, as well as in other Southern areas. This phenomenon is related to the residential immigration processes and to new forms of tourist-residential specialization. However, there is some data linking such residents with the tourist industry. The main purpose...

From 1950 to 1975, Spain developed an active and effective colonisation process in Western Sahara, thanks to certain military actions such as the application of demographic measures favourable to immigrating Spanish population and to the settlement of nomad Saharans; the search and exploitation of mines; the encouragement of alphabetization and sch...

En las Islas Canarias, como consecuencia de la aprobación de varios documentos normativos sobre ordenación territorial, se están procediendo a realizar unas directrices de ordenación del medio rural con el fin de adoptar criterios de desarrollo sostenible. En este proceso, la vivienda es uno de los elementos a regular, dada la importancia socioecon...

Human migrations have been a constant phenomenon throughout history, but the changes they have gone through are very recent. Some of them are related to the increasingly feminisation of the migrations, a theoretical body – gender perspective on migration, which has been subject of analysis since the 1980’s. The scope of this research includes the l...

In this paper, we offer an initial assessment of the impact of the economic crisis on Spain's migration flows. After a period of intensive economic growth and the ensuing immigratory appeal (1995–2007), Spain has been hit hard by the recession. This has modified the trends that had so far characterized foreign immigration in Spain. The impact of th...

The Canary Islands is one of the principal tourist European destinations with twelve million visitors a year. The insular supply is based on a massive Sun and Beach tourism and the scanty competition of other European winter markets. In the last years, the spectacular growth of the sector in the Archipelago and the increase of the international com...

Economic development, tourism and demographic changes are closely related. The characteristics that define this relationship are present in the different tourist destinations at both macro and micro-scale, besides their historical evolution and geographic peculiarities. From the perspective of the re-structuring thesis, we can observe the change fr...

Between 1950 and 1970, the capital cities of the islands of Mallorca and Gran Canaria concentrated an important tourist supply on some neighbourhoods which turned into outstanding destinations. The competition between the residential use and the geographical diversification of the accommodation supply has explained the decrease of tourist activitie...

The Canary Islands is one A the Spanish regions that register major levels of abstention in the different elections. This behavior can be explained because of different reasons, but undoubtedly, the lack of confidence in the elected politicians and in the public institutions is one of the factors with major weight. In this work, a recent experiment...

En la tradición geográfica, una de las formas de abordar la diferenciación social del espacio ha sido la de estudiar el comportamiento territorial de los grupos de población que se pueden establecer a partir de determinados atributos. En la actualidad el tratamiento de la información estadística a microescala y la utilización de los Sistemas de Inf...