Key factors in third countries immigrant population ethnic mobilisation

Abstract

In this article we systematize some factors conditioning the ethnic mobilization, that is, the extracomunitarian immigrants participation in their associations or more spontaneous movements for collective expression. We analyse the conditions under which ethnicity can be activated as a political resource in receptor society for obteining material benefits, fighting against racism and discrimination or maintaining and affirming original identity. The mentioned factors are grouped in various headlines —economic, social, political and relatives to associations configuration—, although their effect upon our study subject is not independent of the rest of them.