Since about two decades ago, migration flow has incremented with Spain as their destiny, characterized by people from many countries, and context: origin, reasons, qualification, socioeconomic resources, expectations, gender and generation, beliefs and values, source types or ethnic identification/categorization. Given that the free movement space that represents the European Union, another relevant distinction is given in intern migrations in the EU and the ones coming from third countries. At the same time, the last ten years, an important emigration mobility and return of Spanish young people (many of them qualified) to Europe countries such as France, Germany and, mostly, United Kingdom, has been produced. In our group, we study insertion fields such as job and coexistence dynamics in multicultural spaces and places, either rural or urban. Even though social insertion of immigrants is usually started in precarious ways to be improved with time and their efforts, we, as many other countries in Europe, have immigrant groups in exclusion risk (ethnic minorities, refuge requesters, unattended young people...).

Migration and cultural diversity are manifested as a challenge in the context of intense socio-economic transformations and, particularly, by the globalisation and neoliberal politics that have resulted in a polarization of the job market, an increment on inequality and the vital unsafety feeling in protected sectors. All of this is manifested in social and cultural fragmentation. Working for a social cohesion, the construction of an “us”, common and at the same time plural, means the application of general politics of inclusive citizenship, for both autochthonous and immigrants, in job, housing, safety, and adequate management of cultural diversity matters.

We take these issues through different lines of research with many common cross-sectional axis among which we can highlight three: 1) Gender dimension; 2) Consideration of, in an intersectional key, social class, gender and ethno cultural factors; 3) An orientation according to the 2030 Agenda and their Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and, concretely with the SDGs5, gender perspective, SDGs10, Reducing inequality, SDGs11. More inclusive, safe and sustainable cities, and the SDGs16. Promote fair, pacific and inclusive societies.