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The deputy director general of the Ministry of Health Family and Social Policy, Felix Barajas, proposed today in San Javier (Murcia) during the inauguration of Crime Seminar "Intercultural Families. A Challenge and Opportunity" organized by the Union of Family Associations (UNAF) and the European Coordinating Committee for the Right of Foreigners to family life, develop educational and social policies for families formed by members of different nationalities, "a growing phenomenon in our country's relatively new, and invites us to deepen their analysis, "he said.

Barajas admitted that binational and multicultural families, whether made up of spouses of different nationality and is made up of spouses of the same nationality to children adopted in other countries, present a problem that sometimes has negative sides, for the clash of cultures , religions, customs and social habits.

However, the deputy director general of the Family had an impact on the many positives that brings this phenomenon and to "enrich the host country."

According to government figures, 12.2 percent of the Spanish population has another nationality, which means that about 5 million of the total population is foreign.

In 2009, 101,600 children were born to couples where both partners were of another nationality other than Spanish, of these 43,000 births were mixed or bi-national couples.

This indicates that one in five children are born in Spain of foreign parents, about 20 percent of total births, hence, according to experts, the need for cultural performance profiling tools to these groups.

In his opening speech, the president of UNAF, Juana Angulo, spoke of the importance to discuss and share experiences from different European countries receiving immigrants, the most traditional how France and Germany, which have been incorporated the phenomenon later as Spain or Italy, but to his credit have the experience of having been, for decades, countries of origin.

Angulo's view, this meeting is an opportunity to make proposals to the European governments to contribute to enriching our society and to specify tools that allow professionals to act on the problem, often complex, presenting these households.

The president of the European Coordinator, Geratto Germano, who also participated in the opening session reminded that we must defend the fundamental and universal right of citizens to live as a family and therefore have to work with foreigners and immigrants for your project Life passes a joint project within the family.

The mayor of the municipality of San Javier Murcia, Pepa Garcia, host of this seminar will conclude on Saturday, September 25, and which will participate through presentations and workshops experts (sociologists, psychologists, lawyers and social workers) of European Union level, concluded that the family is where socialization occurs first and that both the immigrant population and blended families are a source of "social and cultural enrichment, contributing to a society to be more modern and mestizo, facing a future that passes through the miscegenation "

Source: UNAF