The Junta de Andalucía has opened a line of subsidies for Andalusians living in Catalonia in order to compensate "the effect of linguistic immersion" with cultural and linguistic training programs.

As reported on Tuesday by the Andalusian Government, the Ministry of the Presidency, Public Administration and Interior will modify the regulatory bases of grants to Andalusian communities abroad including a line for programs and activities aimed at the descendants of Andalusians "affected by processes of linguistic immersion "," that promote the maintenance, promotion and dissemination of their cultural and linguistic roots ".

Although the text transferred to the Governing Council today does not make specific mention of Catalonia, the content of the approved agreement has a lot to do with the reality of this autonomous community and it can be deduced that it will be the Andalusians and their descendants residing in Catalonia who to a greater extent they can benefit from these cultural programs, although there are also processes of linguistic immersion to a greater or lesser extent in other communities such as the Valencian, Balearic Islands, Galicia or the Basque Country, where Andalusian communities could also receive these grants.

The intention of the Andalusian Government, as explained by the Minister of the Presidency, Elías Bendodo, in the press conference after the Governing Council is that "no Andalusian living outside Andalusia has to lose its cultural and linguistic roots due to the fact that the government of the autonomous community where he resides has decided to implement a process of linguistic immersion. "

These new grants are part of a set of aid programs that already existed previously for Andalusian associations and communities living abroad.

The Board now justifies the creation of this new line of aid in the fact that, in recent years, the Andalusian Administration has encountered "a new challenge to the forced immersion of the entire resident population in certain host territories, that could lead to a gradual loss of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Andalusians living in these territories and, especially, of their descendants. "

"Therefore - it is stated in the text released Tuesday after the Governing Council - it is considered necessary to comply with the aforementioned Law 8/2006 , which includes among its objectives to strengthen social, cultural, economic and political relations with the territories where there are Andalusian communities, from the awareness of the identity of origin and the protection of Andalusian cultural values. "

In total, there are 370 Andalusian communities, which bring together about 100,000 members and just over 1.5 million people residing outside the autonomous community.

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