TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919which has become aware of its changing condition as a country ofimmigration later than countries such as France and Germany.”"Barriers and learning", as all the other activities of the TransnationalCooperation Agreement, has demonstrated its usefulness as a meansof comparing the various contextual and operational situations of theTEFI Country partners.”“The activity barriers and learning and collected material have beenvery useful to action 2.” As we can see, this activity was globallyuseful for partners, except for the French project because, our pointof view is different, specially on the concept of cultural or ethnicalbarriers and because the concept of ethnic minorities is a hogwash 51in France. It shows the differences between integration andassimilation: “We have seen how, in the various partner Countries,this difference between the structural and the cultural dimensionsmay be more or less complicated, in reference to four differentaspects: the acculturation, that involves knowledge of the culture ofthe society of destination, but also the necessary ability to find oneway in that same society; the placing in the society which meansreaching a social position through work but also the forming of afamily and finding adequate living conditions; the interactivitybetween the migrant and the host society, in the degree of loyalty(and not so much of identification) in respect to the values,regulations and behaviour of the society of destination.”We all agree that “there was not enough time for discussion.”51 « Non sens » in FrenchFinal report 312