The integration of the students involved in immigration processes in the province of Agrigento. Interculturality in school education

Since the 1990s, in Italy, the number of students involved in migration processes has been increasing. For this reason, the Italian education system has pointed towards integration and intercultural education. The migratory phenomenon is also relevant in Sicily, in the regions of Sambuca di Sicilia and Santa Margherita de Belize. The multiculturalism of the region and some educational problems found make an important investigation in this area, addressing not only school dynamics but also social and family. In this sense, my research focuses on these aspects, with special emphasis on family, social and institutional conditions that facilitate or hinder school integration and the strategies adopted by adolescents who participate in migration processes to integrate into the educational system of the region. Another factor that I will address will be the intercultural pedagogy applied by the education system. I will try to analyze what measures it establishes and what scope it has among the target population. Finally, I will present a series of proposals for an intercultural pedagogy more adapted to the analyzed reality. The research has been carried out through the use of qualitative methods of inquiry, mainly the semi-structured interview, applied to foreign and native students, as well as to foreign fathers or mothers. The analysis of these interviews and the current regulations regarding interculturality in the educational system, has been carried out through the analysis of content and discourse.