The immigrant integration through communication / La integración de los inmigrantes a través de la comunicación

Abstract

Communication is critical in achieving the integration of immigrants. We start from the assumption that higher level of communicative contact between immigrants and Spanish people communication, higher level of integration, and that this level of integration will be greater in the children than in the parents. To research this fact we created a survey that investigated the extent to which children of three immigrant groups (Chinese, Moroccans and Romanians) were integrated more to the culture of origin of their parents or Spanish. We used a sample of 900 participants, 150 parents and 150 children of every nationality. The results show how greater integration occurs in the Romanian group and lowest in Chinese, and how parents are less integrated than their children. Results are discussed.

Keywords

• Immigration
• integration
• communication
• virtual communication
• second-generation
• parent-child relationships