The Intercultural Community Intervention Project in the municipality of Paterna, Province of Valencia, Spain:

reference models in diversity management

Abstract

In this research, the main model of coexistence and diversity management in the province of Valencia, Spain has been analyzed. For this, a qualitative investigation has been carried out, along with a wide bibliographic and documentary search of the main theoretical categories, which have helped us to understand the mediations that go through the analyzed phenomenon and have allowed us to fulfill the objective main of this research. Likewise, the good practices that some social organizations have been carrying out in the Province of Valencia have been valued, among them the Fundación Secretariado Gitano, within the framework of the Intercultural Community Intervention Project, which seeks to promote Intercultural Citizen Coexistence in the Municipality of Paterna, specifically in the neighborhoods of La Coma and Santa Rita. With the project, different processes of social transformation have been created, creating spaces for participation and exchange, planning and organization of the community's social resources, and greater awareness and appreciation of diversity.