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Alicia Zas 4º ESO

Immigration

Immigration

Immigration refers to the arrival of new individuals into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.

Canary Islands

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The foreign immigration in Canaries constitutes a phenomenon increasingly similarly to the one that there register other geographical areas of the European Union, being one of the Spanish regions in more this phenomenon has been intensified during the last years. At present, currents are fullly consolidated by a notable repercussion in the occupation of the territory and in the real-estate activity, being likewise clear the foreign contribution to the managerial initiative and to the configuration of the local labor markets. The growth of the immigration is a motive of permanent controversy, especially for the progressive amplification of the abundance of irregular character, turning into one of the matters that seem to worry more the inhabitants of the Archipelago.

Immigration for countries

First reason of the immigration in Spain

The most important factor of migratory attraction is the economic development that has demonstrated Spain from 1993. Stocks on a growth of the construction and the tourism, the Spanish economy has come requeriendo since then a great quantity of workforce, In 2005, the country had created approximately 900.000 clearet) works, with which near 40 % it has dealt for foreigner.

Second reason of the immigration in Spain

The cultural and linguistic identity with Latin America, wherefrom they come 36,21 % of the foreigners that existed in Spain in 2006, is an important factor of election for the migrantes of this origin.

Third reason of the immigration in Spain

The smoothness of the climate and the attraction for the way of life, followingthe effect Sun Belt. 21,06 % of the foreigners that exists in Spain comes from Europa Occidental, specially from England, centering in the insular regions and in Alicante and Malaga. Many of them are high-level immigrants: pensioners, workers distantly with Internet or that establish business, in general related to the hotelería.

Reason of the immigration in Spain

The geographical nearness to the African continent: with terrestrial borders with Morocco, the islands near Canaries in the western part African and the own peninsular south near to the Maghrib. The revenue per capita Spanish was, in 2001, twelve times superior to that of a Moroccan; this way, the Spanish-Morrocan border is the most unequal in economic terms(ends) of the whole OECD. 18,13 % of the foreigners registered in Spain in 2006 was coming from this continent, very specially from Morocco.

Immigration in the 60s

The traditional problem of the Spanish field with a structure of the very toughened property and where the large estates were implying terrible living conditions for the laborers of the field, had had in Old Benalup-houses a special emphasis. This way, the sadly famous Reventar of Old Houses are one more expression of this situation. With the arrival of the pro-Franco dictatorship the living conditions of the laborers deteriorated considerably; to exploitative working conditions and highly precarizadas, a descent added in punctured of the wages, which value got down 40 % between 1940 and 1950.