Spanish Immigration
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Emigrate or Immigrate? The prefix e- (or ex-) usually means "out of" or "from." The prefix im- (or in-) often means "in" or "into." Therefore, emigrate means "to move out of" and immigrate means "to move into."
First phase: 1950 – 1960emigration because of bad economic and political conditions
Second phase: from 1973many spanish emigrants because of the Second World War
Third phase: from the 80thmany people from other countries which were not that developed moved to Spain
Today: Spain can be considered like a receptor of immigration
a) reasons- Spain is an open nation concerning the immigration- cultural life: many people think spanish people are very interesting- geographic aspects: good commercial relations- good educational background
b) advantages- for the latin-americans: the same language- many old people in Spain: so they need many young people- good standard of living
c) disadvantages- consumption of drugs, drug dealing and alcohol- terrorism (ETA etc.)- political system: constitutional monarchy
Illegal ImmigrationThere are many people who go to Spain without any valid documents, for example: many
morrocans and many latin-americans who move to Spain for a „short“ time (officially) and
just stay there.
Problems of immigration
• culture shock: own culture & spanish culture
• segregation: because of a economic background - or people get discriminated
Morroco – a special case• historical relations:
- 1084: parts of the spanish territory has beend occupied by the caliphs- 1492: the spanish recapture - there is no arabic influence anymore - 1956: Independence of Morroco
• Ceuta and Melilla- politically they belong to Spain but geografically they belong to Africa- the african immigrants intent to arrive to Spain (from the cost of Morroco to the Canary Islands or other countries of the European Union)