School, leisure and immigrant youth

Abstract

The article is the result of a communication presented at the III Congrés Català de Sociologia (Lleida, 20-21 March 1999). This communication comes from a research developed in Mataró under the same title and payed by Jaume Bofill Foundation. The text presents some ways to conceptualize the educative integration of immigrant children and some models that have deal with this project. We agree with the perspective we call «asincronic and intercultural». After that, the article proposes a definition of leisure, something that becomes a very important resource for the construction of the adolescent identity.