An study on African Associations in Cataluña: actions and future trends

Abstract

The article analyzes the socio-educational action that takes place in the African Immigrants associations in Cataluña, highlighting the intercultural mediation as the most implemented. The analysis is based on a survey done to 206 associations and 56 interviews to the presidents of African immigrants associations, and representatives of private entities and catalan public administration, agencies which are interlocutors of African associations. From our point of view, immigrant associations become priviliged spaces where social integration is promoted and where negotiations are agreed and unified to implement the mentioned integration. In their new society, immigrants go through an internal metamorphosis by means of they remain preserving their roots but progressively become more alive and conscious of their new world.