Uses of ICT’s Tools for the Support of Immigrant Population. The Case of the Observatory of Returned Colombians

The present article will show the advances around the development of strategies of use of the TIC, within the framework of the research project Formación de redes de apoyo para el retorno voluntario de extranjeros colombianos residentes en la Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía, sponsored by the Caixa Foundation and realised by the University of Granada and the University del Norte. The project that gave rise to this article looks for to generate a suitable frame for the constitution of networks of personal and social support around the colombian inmigrants in Andalucia, Spain. The attainment of this intention will be obtained from the application of an investigation-action methodology that contributes to the promotion of the practical and administrative knowledge of the different scenes related to the population object from study in Spain. The value of the Project take for this article come from the work scene in Spain from 2008 to date concerning the number of unemployed, as well as, the promotion given by the Government from Spain round the Voluntary Return’s Plan at the end of 2008.