ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book focuses on how are capital, governments and social movements organised in the processes of integration and resistance that affect 'foreign immigrants' in Barcelona and Lisbon? The separation between economic, political and social processes has been challenged trying to take into account both their possible interactions and fusions along time and across space. The book analyses the increasing systemic rule in Barcelona and Lisbon among 'foreign immigrants' associations and other organisations, where social life has been losing ground in social organisations in favour of systemic processes. It expresses that the same public authority (including local governments) can be implementing completely diverse and contradictory policies on immigration at the same time. The book provides evidence on some changes occurred in Southern Europe since the seventies by the international comparative analysis.
