Comunicarea interculturală în context migraţionist
Intercultural Communication in the Migration’s Context

Summary/Abstract: Migration represents one of the most important social phenomena which characterize our contemporary society, transformed into a more and more global and multicultural one. The cultural, ethnical, economic and social changes make us meet “the diversity”, fact which assumes a permanent change of relationships and a confrontation between different identities. In other words, migration implies an increase of the contact between societies and social groups which belong to different ethnic groups, fact which can determine problematic and conflict situations which can be solved by intercultural communication. Intercultural communication contributes to the discovery of ethnical differences and their relationship, it promotes the change and dialogue between different cultures, reciprocal understanding and it consolidates social cohesion. The acquisition of competences which favors intercultural communication passes through 3 stages as fallows: awareness, knowledge and obtaining some general and specific abilities. The present paper will describe the main competences which contribute to intercultural communication and the obstacles which prevent the adequate functioning in this domain. The success of the intercultural communication depends on the choice of an appropriate code which has to be utilized as mean of communication and relationship between different interlocutors and as a reconfirmation of the fact that the recognition of diversity stands at the base of the relationship with the other. Starting from these premises, this paper aims to outline the principles and the guidelines of the intercultural communication in the sense of promoting a plural, open and respectful community towards the rights and duties of its citizens, whether they are autochthon or strangers. There are going to be underlined as well, the elements which have the decisive role in the process of communication destined to the reciprocal understanding between cultures, crossing not only the linguistic barrier, but the cultural barriers as well, in a process of passing towards an awareness of cultural differences and towards a larger acceptance of different values.

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