{"id":11011,"date":"2020-01-09T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?page_id=11011"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:58:38","slug":"carlos-research-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/graduateprograms\/student-experience-abroad\/carlos-research-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos’ Research in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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La Barceloneta (neighborhood next to the Mediterranean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In front of the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In May of 2019, I had the opportunity to travel to Barcelona, Spain to conduct field research for my Master\u2019s Research Project (MRP), entitled: \u201cThe Politicization of Catalan Secessionism in the 2019 European Parliament Elections\u201d. The trip took place between May 13 to May 30, and the purpose of my travel to Barcelona was to conduct interviews with party representatives of the two main secessionist political parties: Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interest in this field began in 2017; I had registered in a course taught by
\nDr. Achim Hurrelmann. To be brief, this course outlined the functions of the European
\nUnion\u2019s (EU) institutions and major policies at a basic level for students learning
\nabout the EU for the first time. This is where my interest in Europe began and my
\nideas to write a thesis or MRP began as well. Later on in 2017, an unofficial
\nindependence referendum occurred in Catalonia. This referendum was established in
\norder to decide whether or not Catalonia would proceed with the independence
\nmovement or not. However, the Spanish government declared the referendum to be
\nillegal and mass violent raids began orchestrated by the Spanish government via the
\nSpanish National Police Corps. As I have visited Barcelona on many occasions and
\nbeing a native speaker of Spanish, I felt extremely connected with the ongoing
\nsituation and became deeply interested in past and current relations between Spain
\nand Catalonia. As a result, I put these two interests of EU institutions and of the
\nCatalan secessionist movement together to create my MRP research question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout my time in Spain, I remained in Barcelona to carry out interviews
\nwith party representatives from either of the two parties. These interviews were
\nconducted in order to arrive at a more concrete understanding of how representatives
\nand secessionist parties are taking advantage of their position in the EU to advance
\ntheir concerns. The people that I interviewed for my research would range from high
\nlevel representatives to lower level, local representatives of the secessionist political
\nparties. The interviews were scheduled prior to my departure to Barcelona, but the
\nmajority were scheduled during my time in the city. The interview subjects would
\nsuggest who else would be interested in participating in my project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I felt that travelling to Spain was hugely helpful for my project and
\nthanks to the travel grant I was able to accomplish this experience. With the results
\nthat I have collected I am very excited to continue to complete my MRP project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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