The emerging look: the discourse of the integration processes

Abstract

In Spain, social integration policies for immigrants fall under the powers of the Autonomous Communities. That is why they have developed an integral set of actions that have been implemented over recent years under the name Immigrant Integration Plans, each one of which has a particular integration model. This could lead to important regional differences on this matter, which could provoke heterogeneous integration situations. In order to discover the reality in each Autonomous Community, the research gathered in this article was developed in accordance with the following objectives: first, to study the integration model used by each Autonomous Community in designing its immigrant integration policy; second, to know the opinions of the people addressed by these policies as regards their coexistence process in each Community; third, the social strategies used by this group in order to adapt to the new social situation encountered after immigrating were studied.

Keyworks: immigrants; Spain; social integration; social integration policy; coexistence; social networks.