“…The function of integration is to incorporate new members into a given society; it is, therefore, a cooperative process aimed at negotiating differences and the inequality derived from it and making available to newcomers equal opportunities, rights and resources to become full members of the host society (Council of the European Union, 2004). In this way, integration is always dynamic and contextualised in space, time and culture, affecting individual, sociocultural, economic, and political spheres (Pastore & Ponzo, 2016). These functional elements relate to the institutional aspects of the integration process and its political implications in terms of the rights, commitments and obligations acquired by each part.…”