Tamara Bokuchava
The Research project outline
Keywords
Asylum, Catalonia, Colombian refugees, Immigration, Integration, Interculturalism, Ethno - regionalism, Ethno-linguistics, Intercultural communications , Social communications
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"A human being never is the one individual, should be better to call him a universal single” (Sartre, Jean Paul 1997:7)
The administration of the migratory process is constructed collectively, and each country has its own specific uniqueness because of interrelated actions turned into symbolic construction with specific characteristics.
Recent migration movements place us in moment, when the speed and intensity of migration processes experienced over the last few years oblige us to evaluate and consider their main effects at the level of population dynamics, with special influence on the labour market, culture, language and the policies linked to its necessities. The immigration in today’s Catalonia cannot be viewed outside this global dimension of human movements brought to present.
The migratory issue always has had clear impacts on national conceptions and identities and very particularly on those, lacking a state structure. In general, immigration viewed from the different areas of the social science discipline, taking into consideration the causes, that “No one immigrates with his own will and no one likes the plan of leaving his family, his home for that to go far away in search of a new life” (Jordi Soler, El Pais, 11.02.09).
Hence, the presented investigation work is inscribed onto the filed of intercultural communications based on modest case of the qualitative study of the Colombian refugees in Barcelona. Hereafter aimed, to highlight the proceedings of the immigrant integration in Catalonia, as the “sub-state” minority and its current realities in convergence. The attention is concentrated on public politics directed towards the non-EU immigrant population (no cominitaria) derived from its meaning as, social as collective construction of the term. “ Social figures, like in our case of non EU, do not come all at once, nor they are expressed in some certain social essence, but they are always the product of series of socio-historical processes that make them the way they are” (Santamaría, 1997:48).
The research is also sought to help understand the articulation of cultural diversity in communities with historical, cultural or the nationally factors are different from the state majority, in which there are groups of immigrants with diverse cultural characteristics, bearing in mind the distribution of competences in matters of immigration within these states.
At the same time, presented work is the fruit of my fieldwork, as a volunteer at CEAR (Spanish high commission for refugee assistance) which enabled me to be part of the every day realities of the refugee’s lives in Barcelona, in particular the asylum seekers from Colombia.
Prior to the theoretical objectives, the work has the personal inquietude to listen to the voices of asylum seekers (in my case Colombian refugees) and try to give them space, and thus try to find out the truth causes of each and everyone’s “voyages of hope”, their daily lives within the Catalan society highly represented in its capital city of Barcelona. And on the other hand, the intention is to try to analyze the Catalan case as a “sub-culture” defined as the “sub-state” minority within the country of Spain, for better understanding, “the stateless nation”. (Zapata 2007:179)
From the academic point of view, presented research paper, intends to make its insignificant contribution to the qualitative investigations in the field of immigration and process of the interculturality derived from the discourse analysis and communications, investigations in the field of immigration and Intercultural communications.
Currently, the Intercultural is defined as actual, as never before, “what makes us to enter into crisis of our ideas of the reality, face them, with interest and respect towards others, different from our own, what with no doubt teaches us to learn the self management in intercultural communications with uncertainty. Nevertheless, the inteculturality could support a more complex and open thinking, much higher, than of those other Cosmo visions. It’s doubtless, that this will be the struggle for gaining our future” (Rodrigo, 1999: 219).
From all the above mentioned the work also could be inscribed into the framework of qualitative investigations in the filed of social reality in terms of immigration. Its genesis fells into internally observing and participating in the everyday life of the city of Barcelona where there are people from various places. Some are “foreigners”, and others are “immigrants”. The current flows and discussions from the press or media or the references made about these people provoked my deeper interest to study the subject profoundly, so to interrogate about the vision immigrants
Supervisors: Miquel Rodrigo Alsina
Keywords
Asylum, Catalonia, Colombian refugees, Immigration, Integration, Interculturalism, Ethno - regionalism, Ethno-linguistics, Intercultural communications , Social communications
________________________________________
"A human being never is the one individual, should be better to call him a universal single” (Sartre, Jean Paul 1997:7)
The administration of the migratory process is constructed collectively, and each country has its own specific uniqueness because of interrelated actions turned into symbolic construction with specific characteristics.
Recent migration movements place us in moment, when the speed and intensity of migration processes experienced over the last few years oblige us to evaluate and consider their main effects at the level of population dynamics, with special influence on the labour market, culture, language and the policies linked to its necessities. The immigration in today’s Catalonia cannot be viewed outside this global dimension of human movements brought to present.
The migratory issue always has had clear impacts on national conceptions and identities and very particularly on those, lacking a state structure. In general, immigration viewed from the different areas of the social science discipline, taking into consideration the causes, that “No one immigrates with his own will and no one likes the plan of leaving his family, his home for that to go far away in search of a new life” (Jordi Soler, El Pais, 11.02.09).
Hence, the presented investigation work is inscribed onto the filed of intercultural communications based on modest case of the qualitative study of the Colombian refugees in Barcelona. Hereafter aimed, to highlight the proceedings of the immigrant integration in Catalonia, as the “sub-state” minority and its current realities in convergence. The attention is concentrated on public politics directed towards the non-EU immigrant population (no cominitaria) derived from its meaning as, social as collective construction of the term. “ Social figures, like in our case of non EU, do not come all at once, nor they are expressed in some certain social essence, but they are always the product of series of socio-historical processes that make them the way they are” (Santamaría, 1997:48).
The research is also sought to help understand the articulation of cultural diversity in communities with historical, cultural or the nationally factors are different from the state majority, in which there are groups of immigrants with diverse cultural characteristics, bearing in mind the distribution of competences in matters of immigration within these states.
At the same time, presented work is the fruit of my fieldwork, as a volunteer at CEAR (Spanish high commission for refugee assistance) which enabled me to be part of the every day realities of the refugee’s lives in Barcelona, in particular the asylum seekers from Colombia.
Prior to the theoretical objectives, the work has the personal inquietude to listen to the voices of asylum seekers (in my case Colombian refugees) and try to give them space, and thus try to find out the truth causes of each and everyone’s “voyages of hope”, their daily lives within the Catalan society highly represented in its capital city of Barcelona. And on the other hand, the intention is to try to analyze the Catalan case as a “sub-culture” defined as the “sub-state” minority within the country of Spain, for better understanding, “the stateless nation”. (Zapata 2007:179)
From the academic point of view, presented research paper, intends to make its insignificant contribution to the qualitative investigations in the field of immigration and process of the interculturality derived from the discourse analysis and communications, investigations in the field of immigration and Intercultural communications.
Currently, the Intercultural is defined as actual, as never before, “what makes us to enter into crisis of our ideas of the reality, face them, with interest and respect towards others, different from our own, what with no doubt teaches us to learn the self management in intercultural communications with uncertainty. Nevertheless, the inteculturality could support a more complex and open thinking, much higher, than of those other Cosmo visions. It’s doubtless, that this will be the struggle for gaining our future” (Rodrigo, 1999: 219).
From all the above mentioned the work also could be inscribed into the framework of qualitative investigations in the filed of social reality in terms of immigration. Its genesis fells into internally observing and participating in the everyday life of the city of Barcelona where there are people from various places. Some are “foreigners”, and others are “immigrants”. The current flows and discussions from the press or media or the references made about these people provoked my deeper interest to study the subject profoundly, so to interrogate about the vision immigrants
Supervisors: Miquel Rodrigo Alsina
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