ETHNIC

ESTABLISHMENTS IN

USERA, MADRID

Mapping immigration through food.Polly

Englot

Why Usera?

Migrants make up 12% of Spanish population

Five-fold increase since the 1990s

Starting in 2000 large numbers of Bolivians

began immigrating to Spain

Today, 4% of the Bolivian GDP comes from

remittances, most of which come from Spain

Why Usera?

What did we look at?

Establishment name, street address, latitude,

longitude

Establishment type

Bar-Café, Bar-Restaurant, Bar, Bakery,

Supermercado, Frutos Secos (dry goods), Green

Grocer, Butcher, etc.

Ethnic marking

Visible via flags, name, décor, offerings, etc.

Status

Open, Closed, For Sale, For Rent, For Traspaso

Objectives

Map the data points

Look for patterns

Ethnicity distributions

Establishment type

Restaurant status

My Plan

Initially:

Make data usable for Arc/Geocoding

Geocode using the addresses

BUT:

Yo no habla español

Madrid street layers unavailable

My Plan

Map the data using the latitude/longitude data

Convert the coordinates into Decimal Degrees

X in decimal degrees=degrees + minutes/60

+seconds/60

Latitude (N) Longitude (W)

40° 23.179 3° 42.023

Data Used

Clare’s Data

World Street Map and World Imagery layers

from ArcOnline

Flag images from internet

Testing the Method

Bolivian establishments in

Usera

Chinese establishments in

Usera

Chinese & Bolivian establishments in

Usera

QUESTIONS?