The aim of the conference was to present an interpretation of the vicissitudes of the ethnical and/or national identity when observed in ambiguous situations. This is when the identity process expresses real or virtual crisis, such as the case of Latin American immigrants in the United States, or the people from different Spanish regions who emigrated to Barcelona, Spanish Catalans with French and Andorrans living in Andorra, and among the Indigenous people on the Brazilian borders with neighboring countries. The examination of the identity process that takes place in different latitudes, in the Americas and Europe, suggests that socio-cultural phenomena of ethnicity and nationality have common characteristics such as the search for recognition of the moral person, the respect to difference, and as an ethnical corollary, the rise of what it could be defined as an index of consideration.
Identity; Ethnicity; Nationality; Immigration; Crisis
