Killing the Chinese

The Raval district, whose geographical south has fico been Barcelona's historic Chinatown, has always been the symbol and representation of the social and moral panics of the Barcelona bourgeoisie. The concentration of the working-class population, structural poverty and sex work, on the one hand, and, on the other, its configuration as a space for behaviors deviating from the norm and an urban culture on the margins of moral canons, have made the Raval an object of permanent stigmatization.