Utopian Pulse

El Espacio del Inmigrante

The Immigrant Space is an occupied building that works as social center and housing in Raval, a neighborhood in downtown Barcelona. The social center focuses its work on creating spaces of debate and empowerment by and for people whose rights are restricted by immigration law. Basic services such as health care, legal advice, and language classes are also provided, with a strong emphasis on autonomy and civil disobedience. The space is open for organizing screenings, talks, and activities that aim to collaborate in the struggle against racism, classism, xenophobia, patriarchy, and paternalism.

Daniela Ortiz’s work aims to create spaces of tension where conceptions of race, class, nationality, and gender are explored in order to foster a critical understanding of the structures of inclusion and exclusion in society. In the past several years, she has developed several research projects mainly focused on domestic labor in Peru and migratory control systems in Europe and United States. Many of her projects have been developed in collaboration with Xose Quiroga, with whom she coedits the independent news medium Antigonia.com.

Daniela Ortiz was born in Cuzco, Peru, in 1985.
www.espaciodelinmigrante.wordpress.com