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(Gobierno Catalán). Queremos manifestar nuestro agradecimiento a las personas que han colaborado en las distintas fases de la investigación,

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Article 2 Autobiographical notes:Andrés Di Masso, PhD, is lecturer in social psychology, political psychology and qualitative methods at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on the discursive construction of people-place relations, with a specific interest in its ideological implications for the regulation of shows that the position of a 'threatening Other', typically afforded by the insecurity narrative, is pervasively constructed in xeno-racial terms -whether explicitly or by implication-, but is rhetorically rejected on the narrative grounds of its alleged criminal acts. This xeno-racial version of the criminalised Other is itself managed in interaction as a sensitive topic through a set of deracialization strategies that displace rejection from the language of immigration towards culturally contiguous languages of incivilities, cultural differences and socioeconomic disadvantage. The article deepens in the ideological versatility of discourses that subtly warrant the structural privilege of 'natives' vis-à-vis 'immigrants', thereby legitimizing a tenacious system of native supremacy.

In this chapter the evolution and structuring role of QoL in environmental psychology research is reviewed. How the conception of the concept has changed is highlighted. Initially, QoL was pursued as an environmental quality to be attained at any price (i.e. regardless of the economic and the environmental costs), but more recent conceptions emphasize the need for quality from the standpoint of sustainability, just as much economic as social and environmental. Another aspect evolving over time concerns the factors that affect QoL, i.e. the shift from an almost exclusive emphasis on the ‘objective’ socioeconomic and environmental conditions to an active and decisive consideration of the subjective, experiential dimension, which inevitably brings us to the study of happiness