NEW CHAPTER: "THE DIVERSITY VALUE: SPAIN. INTEGRATING THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS IN ANDALUSIA"

In the chapter we discuss on how all these aspects have an impact on social integration of immigrants and social cohesion in contemporary societies, and how diversity enrich Europe. We finish proposing some key areas where new policies or tools could be developed in order to encourage the reinforcement of integration of immigrants and interculturality. The DIVERSE project – Diversity Improvement as a Viable Enrichment Resource for Society and Economy was supported by the European Commission through the European Integration Fund (Grant Agreement No. HOME/2012/EIFX/CA/CFP/4248 *30-CE0586564/00-20).

The chapter is available at:

Gualda, E.; González, J.C.; Jiménez, J.R.; Pérez, H.; Barrera, N.; Iglesias, I. y Rebollo, C. (2015): "SPAIN. Integrating Third Country Nationals in Andalucía (Spain)". The Diversity Value. How to Reinvent the European Approach to Immigration, edited by Laura Zanfrini, McGraw-Hill Education, Maidenhead, UK, pp. 265-276. En http://hdl.handle.net/10272/11140.

The entire book is available through: http://www.ateneonline.it/zanfrini/ (Risorse on line).

The project, with Laura Zanfrini as Scientific Director, was implemented from January 2014 to June 2015, and it was coordinated by the research centre WWELL – Work, Welfare, Enterprise, Lifelong Learning – of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. It was carried out in 10 EU countries (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden), in cooperation with 13 other partners: Associazione Nazionale Oltre le Frontiere –ANOLF, Varese, Italy; Commission on Filipino Migrant Workers, The Netherlands; Fondazione ISMU, Italy; Karlshochschule International University, Germany; MENEDÉK– Hungarian Association for Migrants, Hungary; Nova Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Portugal; Radboud University, The Netherlands; Società San Vincenzo de Paoli, Federazione Regionale Lombarda, Italy; Umeå University, Sweden; University of Huelva, Spain; University of Lódz, Poland; University of Tartu, Estonia; University of Vaasa, Finland.

At the University of Huelva, in charge of the research developed in Andalusia and Spain, Diverse Project has been coordinated by Estrella Gualda. In this project also participated the researchers: Juan Carlos González Faraco, Juan Ramón Jiménez Vicioso, Heliodoro Pérez Moreno, Nashira Barrera Cabaleiro, Inmaculada Iglesias Villarán and Carolina Rebollo Díaz, and it is also linked to the Research Centres: Social Studies and Social Intervention, Cultural Studies in Education and the Centre for Migration Studies all of them belonging to the University of Huelva.

Further findings produced by the project are available at:

http://eseis.es/investigacion/diverse-project
http://www.ismu.org/2015/03/progetto-diverse-3/