Polizones, indocumentados, mendigos y turistas: delincuencia portuaria y pánico moral en la ciudad de Las Palmas durante el primer tercio del siglo XX

Abstract

In this article we will study the discursive formations that the press, between 1900 and 1930, constructed in different social objects around the conception of port delinquency in the Port of La Luz, in the city of Las Palmas. The period in question begins with the start-up of this maritime infraestructura on an international scale and goes through its cycles of boom and decline in that first secular third, determined by the outbreak of the Great War. These material conjunctures led to the emergence of a serie of figures, such as the stowaway or the beggar, who were discursively subjetivised in the press as social and biological enemies of the native population and the tourist, respectively, which would lead to the demando of sanitation campaings in the liberal media.