This paper aims to contribute to studies of social relations among Spanish-speaking Latin Americans (SsLAs) in the London-based diaspora. In public discourse, members of this social group present themselves as an “ethnic community.” However, reported tensions among themselves suggest that this image of unity is not necessarily consonant with their on-the-ground experiences of one another in diaspora. The regeneration of Elephant and Castle (E&C), one of their cultural enclaves in the city, and the arrival of onward Latin Americans (OLAs) from other parts of Europe, after 2008, exacerbated some of these tensions.The data for this paper come from linguistic ethnographic fieldwork conducted over one year (2014–15) in and around the E&C area. An examination of the reflective accounts gathered in interviews with two SsLAs retailers based in E&C since the 1990s reveals that (i) the tensions are caused by the struggle to access scarce economic resources at a time of socioeconomic change, and (ii) the social hierarchies established by the history of settlement of members of the group. Together they signal the ambivalence in the way that convivial relations are experienced by different social actors and lead us to consider the situated nature of conviviality (Rampton 2015).

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欢乐的政治：来自讲西班牙语的拉丁美洲人在伦敦大象和城堡的实地体验

本文旨在为伦敦侨民中讲西班牙语的拉丁美洲人 (SsLAs) 的社会关系研究做出贡献。在公共话语中，这个社会群体的成员将自己表现为一个“种族社区”。然而，据报道，他们之间的紧张关系表明，这种团结的形象不一定与他们在侨民中的实地经历相一致。大象和城堡 (E&C) 是他们在城市的文化飞地之一，2008 年之后来自欧洲其他地区的拉丁美洲人 (OLA) 的到来加剧了其中的一些紧张局势。本文的数据来自来自在 E&C 地区及周边地区进行的一年多（2014-15 年）的语言民族志实地考察。对自 1990 年代以来在 E&C 的两家 SsLA 零售商的采访中收集到的反思性陈述的研究表明，(i) 紧张局势是由于在社会经济变革时期难以获得稀缺的经济资源，以及 (ii) 社会等级制度由集团成员的定居历史建立。它们一起表明了不同社会行为者体验欢乐关系的方式的矛盾心理，并引导我们考虑欢乐的情境性质（Rampton 2015）。