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Country report. Immigrants and immigration policy-making. The Case of Spain

Introduction

To provide comprehensive theoretical and empirical knowledge on international migration, integration and social cohesion, that can form a reliable basis for policy IMISCOE brings together some 400 selected, highly qualified researchers from more than 22 European institutes.

Based on their wide-ranging skills and experience in international comparative research, the institutes implement an integrated, multidisciplinary, rigorously comparative research programme with Europe as its central focus.

One of the steps in building this research programme was the construction of so called research clusters covering various themes relating to migration and integration. One of these clusters focuses on processes of policy making. In this cluster members have developed various country reports on immigrants and immigrant policy making in their respective country. This working paper deals with the case of Spain.

Description

Foreign immigration from impoverished countries to Spain began to be a significant phenomenon in the mid 1980s (during many years most of the foreign residents in Spain were Western European nationals). At that time the first Foreigners Law LO 7/1985 was passed (followed by a regularisation process), just before Spain joined the European Community.

In this report, publications and studies on immigrants and immigration policy-making at the central, regional, local and international level are compiled. As it will be shown, the literature related to the subject in different ways is relatively ample, although the number of publications using the concept of governance is sparse. Most of the research is published in Spanish language, but a few contributions are in English and Catalan language.

Background information

This title is published within the IMISCOE publication programme as part of the Working Papers. These Working Papers are the products of ongoing work by IMISCOE members that are not (yet) ready for publication within the IMISCOE-AUP Book series.

They may range from State of the Art Reports (SoAR) on worldwide research within a particular domain to more specific products of ongoing work. The Working Papers are evaluated by the editorial committee for quality and completeness before being published on the website.

Peer-reviewed publications can be found in the IMISCOE_AUP Book Series developed in co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP).

EU involvement

The IMISCOE Working Papers are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme

Contact info

IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Karen Kraal (Communication Officer), tel. +31 (0)20 525 3659

Publication date

Project finished

//2006

Researcher

Ricard Morén-Alegret, Migration Research Group (GRM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Links

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Download the 'Country report. Immigrants and immigration policy-making. The Case of Spain' Report (PDF, Eng, 191 KB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration