Alliances et réseaux de parenté de Gitans en Catalogne

Some characteristics of new migrants issued from Moroccan and settled gipsy communities are studied. It is demonstrated how they develop skills to be "here and there" based on a know-how for international travel, hence creating new models of identification relying on experiences of multiple interaction. These new types of migrants are highly mobile and produce micro-societies with singular norms with new adapted social interactions that transform the concerned institutions: school, family and economic processes. The study of genealogical lines indicates us how Barcelona and Perpignan Gypsy families reinforce each other by aggregating themselves into clans with new transnational outlines, whereas by contrast a reading limited by Franco-Spanish political borders suggests the disintegration of one and sometimes of both simultaneously. Those genealogical lines help bring to light material and symbolic spaces, that have led me to locate and analyse a new form of social autonomy.