Negro-africanos en la provincia de Huelvaentre la integración y el racismo

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This PhD Thesis who has had as general objective to analyze the relationship between the ethnic-racial identity of Black-African population and its integration process in the province of Huelva in the period 2000-2015. Explores the characteristics and conditions of nationals from countries of black Africa settled in Huelva-Spain, and the influence that racial discrimination may have in their integration processes and individual and social identity redefinition. So then, it focuses on the population of "Afroafricans" that is located at the level of widely recognized ethno-racial category "Black-Africans" not covering the "Arabo-African" from Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. This study has been articulated from three main themes in constant interrelation in defining the conditions of welfare and integration or not, the Black-African immigrant population to know; Immigration defended as a human right to freedom of movement and protection when it is presented in terms of vulnerability, which is contrasted with the instrumental association of migration as a labor and will condition as we will see later the implementation of the laws that regulate the Spanish State; Racism as an ideology of ethnic European colonization, "ethno colonization", which determines the discrimination that can be exercised by States and its members, affecting processes meeting the necessary inclusion, welfare and integration of minority groups as ethnically differentiated and afroafricano ; The integration understood as a multi-process constant acquisition and construction of binding ties between the immigrant and the host society, which generates feelings of belonging and acceptance between them. Making use of methodological pluralism that brings us closer to the multidimensional of our object of study, we have achieved as a starting point in their life stories to know from their voices and feelings structural and endemic causes that affect the migration process via Arrival , reasons for migration, the difficulties and / or facilitating their integration, including its vision and experience with the local racism. With the voices of each other - immigrants and native - from analyzing the speeches and their connotations, manifest in discussion groups and shared professional experiences, the existence of racial ethnic variable as a cross-conditioner of the different areas confirmed (administrative status, employment, housing, social support networks, access to tools and institutional resources) of life and relationships with afroafrican decidedly affects their integration process and their feelings of identity and belonging to the province.