On Norbert Elias' outsiders and other strangers in the sociology of migration

In 1965, Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson published The established and the Outsiders: A Sociological Enquiry Into Community Problems. In this work, the authors discuss a sociological problem widely studied from the sociology of migration: how the figure of the foreigner or stranger is constructed socially. However, references to this book in Spanish scientific production about the study of the processes of construction of otherness in immigration receiving societies like ours are not very abundant. Yet it is significant that Elias and Scotson also do not make references to classic studies on this subject. Therefore, this article will attempt to link the research of Elias whit the work of his predecessors within this field of study. Finally it tries to highlight what the outcome of this book is for the study of the settlement of immigrant population and the relationships between and within social groups.