Abstract:Integration is often, implicitly or otherwise, posited as a social good to be aspired to in contemporary Spanish films about immigration and wider European debates on this topic. Integration, however, can be a problematic notion which tends to insist more on the adjustments of the incoming "others" to a pre-existing common culture than on the necessity of the "host" to adapt. This article explores the extent to which Chus Gutiérrez's 2008 film, Retorno a Hansala, proffers a new paradigm for integration by havi… Show more
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