“Making Our Little Country”: Belonging, Resistance, and Migrant Labor in Spain
True belonging is not what your passport determines: it is the human relations that see your worth and make you feel at home. Senegalese migrants create a “little country” within Barcelona, Spain through Top Manta — a clothing brand, labor union, and social organisation at the intersection of migrant, labor, and climate rights. Mamadou Lamine Sarr and Maria Elena Coa discuss the diverse grassroots efforts fighting to transform the situation of undocumented migrants.