Working paper produced within the TOLERACE project 145 The Management of Otherness under the Crisis of the State: Integration Policies and Inclusive Citizenship as a Government Paradigm in the Basque Country Gabriel Gatti and Daniel Muriel Centre for Colective Identity Studies November 2010 1. Presentation In this text we are going to analyse the documents that reflect the policies on immigration within the area of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. The documents we will be discussing are I Basque Immigration Plan (Gobierno Vasco [Basque government], 2003) and the II Basque Immigration Plan (Gobierno Vasco, 2007), which we shall compare with the policies planned by the Government of Spain (Strategic Citizenship and Integration Plan, Gobierno de España [Spanish government], 2007). To a lesser extent, we will be paying attention to the proposals of other Basque public administrations, both at the regional level (Provincial Council of Álava [Diputación Foral de Álava]) and the local level (municipal Immigration Plans), and, similarly, to administrative authorities of less scope or with a transversal character but lacking executive powers (the Ombudsman of the Basque Country). The two Basque immigration plans (that of 2003 for the years 2003-2005, and that of 2007 for the 2007-2009 period) were both conceived in the Department of Housing and Social Affairs of the Basque government 129 and are inscribed in a widespread process of drawing up plans on immigration in the autonomous communities of the whole Spanish 129 Both were drawn up during the period when Ezker Batua-Berdeak (the political referent of Izquierda Unida [United Left] in the Basque Country, which arose from the union of different left-wing – mainly communist – and republican parties) formed part of the tripartite Basque Government (Basque Nationalist Party [PNV], Eusko Alkartasuna [EA] and Ezker Batua-Berdeak [EBB]) between the years 2001 and 2009 (two legislative periods) and when its coordinator, Javier Madrazo, was acting as Councillor for Housing and Social Affairs.