Este trabajo presenta el diseño de un proyecto de investigación que está siendo desarrollado por la Unidad de Investigación de Psicología Social de la Universitat de Valéncia y el Ayuntamiento de Quart de Poblet, enmarcado en el programa europeo Regionet Integra, y cuyo objetivo es diseñar un Programa de itinerarios formativos para madres y padres de alumnos inmigrantes que facilite el proceso de escolarización de los alumnos y a la vez promueva la integración social de sus padres a través de la participación en el sistema educativo.
The foreign immigration phenomena is a recent fact in the Spanish State. The presence
of foreign immigrant residents – regular or irregular – has vertiginously incremented
fundamentally during the last decade of the 20
th
Century throughout the whole country.
According to the Department of Interior data, these were 360.655 foreigners in 1991, and
the number ascended in 2001 to 1.200.000 foreign residents.
Population movement is presented as a property of 21
st
century society, therefore the
social integration of foreign immigrants has become one of the main challenges for the
present society.
Attending to the complexity of the Phenomena and to the need to respond to de social
problems that it entails, an investigation process has been launched, integrated in the Regionet
Integra European Program, whose objective is to design a formation itinerary program
for parents of immigrant students which allows the students’ educative integration and
simultaneously promotes the social integration of their parents by means of participation
in the educative system.
For the development of this we will use qualitative and qualitative methodologies
complementarily, as well as the analysis of secondary information sources. The present
communicate shows the basic situation data and the methodological proposals to allow the
participation and integration of foreign immigrants in the scholastic institution.