Mujeres inmigrantes como “transformadoras de cultura”. Un método experimental para la transferencia intergeneracional de la identidad cultural.

This paper has a descriptive nature, based on an experimental work, and its main aim is to propose an alternative methodological tool, which is able to gather the principles of the traditional qualitative inquiry and socio-community intervention strategies. This method is suitable for exploring both immigrants’ cultural identity and transforming conflictive intergenerational dialogues (in the core of immigrants’ families) into constructive and positive intercultural dialogues, based on a learning process through the application of the appreciative approach. This paper describes the dynamic of the “life box” as a powerful transforming tool in a participatory action-research process carried out with immigrant women from different origin and located in the Basque Country. In migration studies migrant women are identified as “bearers” of human values and cultural identity. The main findings show that they also are “transformers” of culture, having an active role in the intergenerational dialogue.