[The volume is] helpful in thinking about contemporary Spain but above all to inspire an interest in what's coming next. The future of this multicultural setting is an important chapter in the country's history, one that should be written with care and attention, paying attention to the conditions and situations that these trials suggest that, under the guidance of the editors, they have already detected major obstacles that must be overcome.

Hispanofila

Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain is a must [read] for those who wish to examine the social and cultural complexity of Spain.

Revista de ALCES XXI

A timely and thorough anthology. . . .This carefully researched book will appeal to scholars of contemporary Spain; European urban studies; studies on space and places; and twenty-first century diaspora, migration, and immigration, in general. . . .Together Corbalán and Mayock have put together a valuable and timely collection. . . .[This book] will surely be an essential text for many.

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Ana Corbalán and Ellen Mayock’s Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain: Local Cities, Global Spaces publication offers an important contribution to the study of Spain’s multicultural reconfiguration in the new millennium.... This collection showcases recent research that would appeal to graduate school students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines that encompass cultural studies, literature, and film.... The book provides a valuable tool as we begin to understand and examine the changing portrait of Spanish identity and its reconfiguration in the new millennium.

Hispania

Maryanne L. Leone’s discussion of María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa’s documentary La Churona: historia de una virgen migrante(2010) is an exemplary and engaging interdisciplinary piece on the represented realities of Ecuadorian Madrid. Pilar Martínez-Quiroga’s analysis of María Reimóndez’s O club da calcetais a lucid introduction in a Galician context of the literary and feminist possibilities or ‘rurban’ space. Megan Salesman and Javier Entrambaguas, on the independent films Si nos dejan(Ana Torres, 2003) and Raval, Raval(Antoni Verdaguer, 2006), combine purposeful arguments on chaos, containment, immigration and disruption with sharp filmic analysis.

Bulletin of Spanish Studies