Description of the integration initiative implemented
Among the main integration measures that stand out in this story are:
- Support family of origin in Mexico. Mainly economic and affective.
- Establishment of collaboration networks between women (mostly other migrants from different countries) that provide friendship, resources and collaboration for entrepreneurship.
- Knowledge of the Spanish and English language (international job profile)
- University studies
- Social status
- Economic solvency
- Internship center while studying graduate studies that was expanding her working relationship with her adapting to her administrative and personal situation.
- The maintenance of their culture of origin and the possibility of being able to express it publicly in the society in which they live. He feels that Mexican culture is welcome in Spain and expresses it with pride.

Personal story
The woman interviewed is 32 years old, of Mexican nationality. She comes from a well-situated family in Mexico. Although her economic, family and social situation in Mexico was always comfortable, she was a restless young woman who was curious to explore other cultures and expand her knowledge of her vocation. She always wanted to study education and dedicate herself to teaching. Since her pre-university studies, she has looked for a way to travel and get out of her comfort zone, taking care as an au-pair of central tasks in the family of babysitting in different families. She did so in Canada and the United States, where, due to different circumstances, she had to change families on several occasions and become the main caregiver of several children in families with absent parents. Once she finished her undergraduate studies, and after accumulating professional experience in Mexico, she felt the need to continue learning. Although the American destinations (Canada and the USA) were more plausible for her family, due to the geographic proximity and flexibility of her labor market, Natalia was always “in love” with Spain and “her culture” with her. Living in Spain was "his dream of hers" of hers. She decided to seek a Master's course in Madrid. After some difficulties getting into a master's degree, she finally got a place and moved.
Her main difficulties took place in that transit of the settlement.. It took her several months to find accommodation, suffering scams, broken commitments and refusals from the owners and agencies due to her foreigner status. At this stage, she had doubts about the meaning of her determination to live in Spain, and was about to give up. She kept the support of her family of her origin, both emotionally and financially (they covered her expenses in Madrid that were not negligible to her duty to stay in the tourist real estate market).
Once settled in Madrid and pursuing her studies, she experienced a more stable stage. She also lived a short relationship where her vulnerabilities as a foreigner and unaware of the interactive styles and relationship models between men and women in Spain led her to accept for a short time behaviors by her partner that she now qualifies as abuse . Finally, also thanks to the dialogue and help of friends, she leaves this relationship. .
During this period, she did her master's internship in a company that valued her work and when her student permit expired, she looked for legal formulas to guarantee its continuity. She assumed various roles in the company and accumulated practice and initiative. In this context, a transfer to Malaga was proposed to her by her company and she accepted it. This meant starting over in terms of accommodation and networking. Even at this moment the issue of her administrative situation was a problem, which she was solving with the help of the company in a choppy way.. Meet a lawyer who is committed to helping her and collects all her personal and work information, but when he sees his expectations of becoming a partner with her dissolve, he uses this information to threaten her to take legal action using some loophole that could be interpreted as a minor irregularity..
While in Malaga she meets a man with whom she begins a relationship that is superficial in principle. The relationship is respectful and going well, although it is incipient. At that time they legally advise her that, given the status (with ups and downs in his work permit processing) of her application, the "easiest" thing to regularize his situation is to become a de facto partner with this person. Shortly after, the state of alarm arrives and they go to live with his family in a farm. This strengthens the relationship. On his return to Malaga, he was soon offered a job in Seville. She decides to leave her job and move to Seville. At this time they have bought a home where they have been living for about 4 months. She has found a job as a support teacher at a local school, where she feels comfortable although she continues to seek other opportunities because her salary is very low. She has networked the neighborhood, and opened an English teaching academy. ..
Our protagonist is a very restless person who learns from her own mistakes and difficulties, seeks solutions in each new situation and is not afraid to take risks. She tells of having gone through difficulties that were not necessary given her economically developed origin in Mexico, but that each one of these has meant growth after having had a bad time.
At this moment, she has undertaken a project (that of a family with her partner and her settlement in Seville) not absent of uncertainties, but she has positive intuitions and knows that she is capable of facing difficulties. Her wishes are for stability, to have children once her economic situation improves, and to live "quietly" practicing her profession. She has a relationship of respect and reciprocity with her partner who is at this moment her greatest support in every way.
When he returns to Mexico he feels the family's shelter, but also the short-sightedness that his life there would have meant. Her friends have restricted her life to an early marriage and her dedication to her family. She has put her profession ahead of her until now, that she wishes to reconcile it with a family life, but already in a more mature stage. What is most difficult for him is being away from her family in moments that are milestones.
She feels well sheltered in Spain. She generally finds enthusiasm from the Spanish people she meets for Mexican culture.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The main integration initiatives include:
RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS
- The company with which she has carried out a master's internship and paid work
- Friendship networks in the different localities in which she has resided
- Economic and emotional support from her family of origin
- Respect of the destination society for her customs, maternal culture and signs of identity.
- Her own professional value
- Her own ability to adapt and learn from difficulties
- Her current partner
CULTURAL IDENTITY:
- Reaffirmation of her cultural identity.
JOB:
- In the different jobs she has had, she has felt recognized and has the perception that she has added value.
MOTIVATION OF MIGRATION:
- Being a young woman without children under her responsibility, led her to make the decision to migrate looking for new job and life perspectives.. At the moment her biggest challenge is to achieve financial stability through her profession.

Results and Impact
On a qualitative level, she feels integrated. She has the support of her partner and is forming informal support networks, but she feels that she needs to improve her life by finding / undertaking a more stable job that provides her financially as an independent person. .
On a quantitative level, her economic situation does not improve when she arrives in Spain .However, she has been solving difficulties and she values the experience, the autonomy and the feeling of self-worth that comes from having left her "comfort zone".