Description of the integration initiative implemented
The most important issues for its integration have been:
- Social entities such as CEAR and CEPAIM, which helped them when they requested asylum and refuge. These entities provided them with accommodation and financial resources.
- Previous contacts with other migrants who provided them with the guidance of a lawyer, who also helped her husband to get a job.
- Information and guidance on legal aspects obtained from social entities (Córdoba Acoge), or the Church's food aid.
- The training and advice received through the City Council of the municipality of Córdoba where they reside on orientation for employment and training of socio-sanitary assistant.
- Informal networks established with your neighbors and friends.
- They try to maintain their cultural patterns of the culture of origin, but incorporate and live the cultural patterns of the host society.

Personal story
The woman interviewed comes from Venezuela and in her country has worked as a dentist and teacher at the University
She is married and has a 9 year old daughter. Her parents and her sister continue to live in Venezuela, education for her family was very important, she and her little sister have university studies.
She meets her husband in her town, in Venezuela, where they have her daughter. She has been married to her husband for 12 years.
The migratory project arises suddenly, due to the socioeconomic situation of the country and the crime and kidnappings that take place in her country.
They had the help of some friends who had already migrated and were in Spain. She approved the title of her to come.
Her friends were in a town in Cádiz, to this day they do not maintain a relationship with them. They initially helped her and convinced her to come to Spain.
To migrate, they sold all their properties (car, house, etc.) and bought plane tickets for the three of them as tourists. She looked for information on the internet as well as the management of approving her documents, so they came with everything prepared.
They arrived in Barajas by plane and went to the town where her friends live, where they lived and welcomed them from the first moment. However, she believes that these deceived them, since they told them that they had businesses here, there was work and it would help them, and when they arrived that was not true and it did not help them, but they told them that they could not attend or help them, and that in Things were very difficult in Spain. They were with these friends for a month.
They applied for asylum and were informed that it would take about 6 - 8 months to get a work permit. CEAR helped them and guided them, and they gave them a place in a Refugee Reception Center in the province of Cádiz, where they stayed for 5 months, then they were transferred to Murcia through CEPAIM, living in a residence, where they spent 8 months. During those 5 months they did not receive any training, at CEPAIM she did receive a course as a Mental Clinic Assistant, but no job search, what they also offered was accommodation and meals, and the schooling of the girl.
It took a year and a half to receive the residence and work permit. Once they leave CEPAIM, they continue in the apartment paying the rent themselves, without receiving financial aid from CEPAIM.
Through the friends who helped him at the beginning, they meet a lawyer who helps them with the application in CEAR and other matters, and with this lawyer they become good friends. And it is with that lawyer and another Venezuelan man that they propose to her husband to set up a bottling company in a municipality of Córdoba, so they move to this municipality.
Currently they continue with the company but with the COVID situation they have had difficulties having to seek help for food.
Now they have residency and are going to start the process for nationality.
In relation to her employment situation, despite the fact that she has posted numerous resumes, she has not obtained a job. In the City Council of the municipality where they reside, they have helped her a lot and have guided her in how to do the curriculum, and in training as a home help assistant and social and health care. She has been interviewed by an INCORPORATE company and she is going to do the training to see if she can work in that sector, all through the City Council.
CEPAIM, CEAR, the City Council, Andalusia Orienta have been the entities that have helped them the most.
She has not felt any discrimination from Spanish society, and even her daughter is very integrated in the school and in the town, with very good grades.
In relation to social relationships, she usually interacts with all people, of any nationality, and especially with Spanish people. She has gotten along very well with her neighbors both in Murcia and in the town, where they make Venezuelan food and take it with her groups of Spanish friends.
The network of friends has helped them a lot to feel better, it gives them motivation both their Spanish friends and those of Venezuela or other nationalities, she gives encouragement to the rest and the rest give encouragement to them. In the future, I would like her parents to go with her to Spain.
The main difficulty for her is to get a job, and what has helped her is to trust the authorities and the entities that guide them, help them, and although she requires time, she is waiting for the procedures to be carried out well.
She also has difficulties with the validation of university degrees, since she has been waiting for three years to be able to carry out the management, but there are many difficulties in the Universities.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The main initiatives to improve integration have been:
LEGAL SCOPE:
- Be able to validate your university studies.
- Trust the guidance and advice of social entities and authorities.
RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS
- Social entities are key in orientation, information and training.
- Support from the City Council at the local level
- Neighbors and their friends are a very important support network.
NETWORKS AND PARTICIPATION
- Friends, who help them in the migration process, first reception upon arrival in Spain.
- Active participation in your municipality through networks of friends.
CULTURAL IDENTITY
- Maintaining their cultural guidelines especially food and music.
- At the same time, incorporation into their lives of the cultural guidelines of the host society, valuing the richness that this diversity brings.

Results and Impact
In the present case, the immigration process has had a positive impact since it has improved their lives in terms of citizen security and peace of mind, free of crime. Despite having to abandon everything and start from scratch with nothing, they consider that they have better prospects for the future, for her, her husband, and especially for her daughter.