Project Perspective Report
Spain, formerly issuer of emigrants, has become to host a major migratory flow, in recent years.
According to the 2008 census by the National Statistical Institute (which does not take into account all the realities of immigration but just those registered), the 11′3% (5′22 million people) of the population of Spain is from foreign nationality, standing out countries as Romania (728,000), Morocco (644,000) and Ecuador (420,000).
Immigration in Spain characterized by the provenance from areas culturally close, whether for identification linguistic or geographic proximity. EU-27 adds 38% of the total of foreign residents, 31% Latin America and Africa 18%. The foreign population concentrates in the capital, the Mediterranean strip and the two archipelagos. Cataluña is the region with the highest foreign registration (1,097,000), followed by Madrid (991,000) and Comunitat Valenciana (838,000).
An aspect not always mentioned in the statistics that may refer to situations of racial discrimination is the Gypsy people, whose population in Spain is estimated on 600,000.
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