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Cultures in contact: Spain

Cultures in contact: Spain. Spanish Immigration… PECI: SPANISH STRATEGIC PLAN FOR CITIZENSHIP AND INTEGRATION http://www.mtin.es/es/sec_emi/IntegraInmigrantes/PlanEstrategico/Docs/PECIDEF180407.pdf

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Cultures in contact: Spain

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  1. Cultures in contact: Spain Spanish Immigration… PECI: SPANISH STRATEGIC PLAN FOR CITIZENSHIP AND INTEGRATION http://www.mtin.es/es/sec_emi/IntegraInmigrantes/PlanEstrategico/Docs/PECIDEF180407.pdf Topics: Immigration, Legal frame of migration, Integration policies in Spain and the European Union,… 1. Acceptance 2. Education 3. Employm. 4. Housing 5. Social Services 6. Health 7. Childhood and Youth 8. Equity of treatment 9. Gender 10. Participation 11. Social awareness 12. Co-development

  2. Cultures in contact

  3. Cultures in contact INTERCULTURALITY AS A PROJECT: Valuing the ethnical differences of new immigrants Open dialogue and interconnection between the groups. Translation and intercultural mediation as strategies. Promotion of heterogeneous society and mutual recognition. Emphasis on the “affection community”, (antiracial and multilingual education, …)

  4. Cultures in contact: Valencia FOOTBALL AS A TOOL FOR INTERCULTURALITY “American Libertarian Cup” (2001) “Integration Championship” (2002) -“Ecuadorian and Latin-American Immigrant Football League Rumiñahui”(onwards): Integration of immigrants Psychological Refuge Public space for unity and participation Group and Individual recognition Positive psychosocial development (leisure) Reinforcement of family, neighborhood bonds. “In order to find a place in the World, we need to wise up and use all the resources we have” (Levi-Strauss, La penséesauvage, 1962)

  5. Immigrant Football League (Valencia) However… Huge economic efforts: * No public economic funding is conceded to this Football League up to now. * Impossibility to ask for bank loans due to the situation of immigrants (non documented immigrants or “illegal”) Autochthonous population claim that they make the parks dirty and they do hawking. Tense relationship with the Public Administration, too. Risk of segregation:  isolation of the group: relatively closed micro-culture is formed . parallel spaces within the culture or ghettos.  no participation of the autochthonous population. “Collective wellbeing does not mean to force the several groups to be mixed up in the activities (e.g. sports), but it means to understand that each of these groups feels good being with whom they wish to be. From their own identity, they build up relationships with the rest of the community” (Heineman, Sports for Immigrants: A Tool for Integration?, 2002)

  6. Football for Development and Peace The Global Nature of the Sport: • Very simple game to play • Rules of the game are simple and have changed very little • There are eleven positions in soccer which allows for people of every physical condition to find a place on the pitch • Communication channels (especially radio and TV) have prompted the expansion of the game globally • Football becoming a tool for national prestige and political activism Jerome Champagne, FIFA director for international relations

  7. Football for Development and Peace Origins: • Football Hooliganism reached the most alarming crisis in England in the 1980’s (violence, racism) • Emergence of an international community that used the sport to address football-related violence (first in England through locally based associations to “educate” wild fans. This initiative quickly replicated throughout Europe in the late 1980’s. • The media (particularly TV) • International organizations (FIFA, UN), governments, private sector, which realized the power of the sport in promoting cultures of peace

  8. Football for Development and Peace Football and Social Development Networks : Football for Hope Movement (FIFA) • Establish a quality seal for sustainable human and social development programs focusing on football as the central instrument in: 1- health promotion 2- peace building 3- children’s rights and education 4- social inclusion 5- the environment

  9. Goals for Peace Project Principles: • Because its universality football is appealing to most youth • In addition to being a recreational activity, football may serve educational purposes • Football integrates communities and provides a space for social inclusion and participation • Positive behavior learned on the field may be replicated on daily life Objectives: • Facilitate inclusion and integration of at-risk children • Foster self steam and empowerment • Challenge gender norms and promote cultures of peace • Enhance physical and mental health

  10. Goals for Peace Project Modules: • Peace and conflict resolution (arts, Mandala, theater of the oppressed) • Leadership • Teamwork • Compromise

  11. Goals for Peace Project • learned on the field may

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