Sustainable intercultural integration in local communities: a pioneer roject on intercultural education

摘要

The following research study is based on a micro-sociological approach to the phenomenon of immigration (B?s, 1998). It also focuses on the global view of international migration and emphasizes the fact that immigration can never be separated from emigration but they are two different processes of the same phenomenon. (Sayad, 2004). The primary purpose of the study is to explain inter-cultural coexistence not only from the perspective of immigrants but also from the viewpoint of the indigenous population of Fortezza, a small village in South Tirol, northern Italy. As the Latin preposition “inter” expresses, the study is trying to detect what is going on “between” the groups, where conflicting views exist despite the overlapping of the two worlds.