The region of Valencia: an avant-garde integration. The School of Reception / Comunitat Valenciana: una integración de vanguardia. La Escuela de Acogida

Abstract

The Voluntary Program of Understanding of the Valencian Society (The School of Reception), a unique and pioneer project in Spain, is included in Title II of the Commitment to Integration of Law 15/2008 of Integration of Immigrant Persons in the Region of Valencia (LIPIE) and in Decree 93/2009, by which the regulation of the aforementioned law is approved. This program is a tool that introduces immigrants voluntarily to the knowledge of the values and rules of democratic conviviality, their rights and duties, the politico-constitutional structure of Spain, and the official languages of the region, both Spanish and Valencian, all essential elements for said persons to know the society that has received them and in order to integrate into it.

Keywords

• Region of Valencia
• immigration
• integration
• basic common principles of the EU
• School of Reception