Managing the Cultural Differences in Spain: When Talking about Interculturality Means Talking about Immigrant’s Culture

Abstract

For many years, Spain is experimenting the phenomenon of immigration and implementing procedures normatively orientated according to the contexts, but sharing the main goal: integration. Those orientative processes have been first guided by multiculturalism and then evolving toward certain forms of interculturalism. On the base of this consideration it is necessary to deeply consider the theory debate on multi- and interculturalism, in order to consider the assumption and operational translations. Through the normative production and Third Sector discourses, emerge the trend of relating interculturalism to dynamics that are exclusively tied to the presence of migrant population in the Country. This essay is based on a qualitative research in which clearly emerged that, at least in Andalucia, but we can generalize to the whole country, the cultural managing process brought to interculturalism has been often difficult and did not help to definitely overcome assimilationist risks, typical above all of social operators at local level, for this reason we need to redefine the sense of “us”.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1s1p63