ABSTRACT
In spite of the economic prosperity it enjoys, Spain faces some major social challenges, most of them typical of advanced Western democracies. Many of these are issues of social cohesion that beset other countries, given the particular disadvantages that certain groups of people have to cope with. Some specific issues stand out in the Spanish case, given the phase of the country’s development, its geographical location, and, in some respects, the enormous advances that have been made in recent years in the fields concerned.
