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11/05/2009

An exotic look on Catalanism

Country:

Spain

Continent:

Europe

Member:
Fundació Catalanista i Demòcrata CatDem

The project “An exotic look on Catalanism” works towards one of the many causes that generate harmful effects from massive immigration, which is the absence of knowledge about such phenomenon. Willing to improve the current situation of misinformation, we have planned a series of debates and conferences with the participation of immigrants and locals. The idea is to impel a process of social dialogue between autochthons, earlier generations of immigrants and newcomers. Through these debates we hope to obtain a series of responses on how the many aspects of the immigration process affect integration, and consequently, by these we hope to improve integration between immigrants and the host society.

This project has been impelled and carried out by the Commission of Citizenship, Diversity and Identities, whose members are mainly immigrants or experts in the field of integration policies. They are responsible for the crafting of a list of issues to be discussed throughout the debates. These themes are: the importance of the circumstances which surround the arrival of newcomers in Catalonia and Europe, the implication of attitudes and opinions of the hosting society in the integration process, the importance of the origins and the personal history of each immigrant in the integration process, and finally the analysis of positive and negative impacts of immigration.