GLOBALIZATION PROCESS IN ITS SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT: MIGRATIONS TO PONIENTE ALMERIENSE

An important socio-political context for analyzing glocalization process understanding as interaction between the global and the local-is the Poniente Almeriense. This is an area of the Spanish Province of Almeria, situated in its West coast and, it has nine villages that approximately collected thirty per cent of provincial population. In the Poniente Almeriense live three groups of population very heterogenic between itself and in its internal composition. The Spanish citizenry, a lot of these migrant to Poniente Almeriense as result to agricultural expansion, for the period of 1960 to 1970, came from Granada localities of Alpujarra. The "extra-communitarian labour immigrants" come from of diverse spaces of the world, for the period of 1985 to present, with the aspiration of obtain one work that improved theirs lives. And the "communitarian immigrants by leisure time", in fact perceived as tourists; but they are mainly German and British people that consume theirs free time, after the end of labour life. In this context, we analyze the last two groups, in order to find several social disparities. In this sense, we identify several demographic and socioeconomic differences, divergent local occupation of territory and, a variety of constructed imaginaries of immigrants by the local socio-political agents.