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The main terms and concepts can be grouped into two blocks: on one side, adaptation, fit, accommodation, or arrangement; and on the another side, integration, assimilation, or absorption. The first terms are more appropriate to express the perspective and the point of view of the immigrants and their greater or lesser ability to handle themselves and to develop in the receiving society. The second terms, however, pay individual attention to the receiving society and its structural exigencies to participate in its institutions and primary groups.

Conclusion

It does not seem that we have reached clarity necessary to define what happens in a migratory process, to name and classify the diverse phenomena nor the constituting interrelated sets of concepts and categories that guide investigation. But theory and the methodology have made advances and are now more adapted to investigate the migratory processes. In this way we can continue considering the studies and theoretical contributions of the past simultaneously as we look for new, more suitable instruments to understand and explain what is happening in Spain today, as a result of its new demographic, economic, social, and cultural configuration.

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