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Immigration to Spain increased significantly in the beginning of the 21st century. In 1998, immigrants accounted for 1.6% of the population, and by 2009, that number had risen to over 12%. Until 2014, the numbers were decreasing due to the economic crisis, but since 2015, immigration to Spain has increased again, [2] especially after 2021. [3]
As of January 2021, there are 2,480,373 South Americans in Spain (all Latin American aside from 391), and 624,034 Central American or Caribbean people in Spain (all bar at most 60,505 being from Latin America). [1] Flows of migration have been dependent on the economic conditions in their countries of birth and in Spain.
Romanians form the second largest group of foreigners in Spain, after Moroccans. [6] As of 2023, there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain. [7] Most of the immigration took place given economic reasons.
[8] [9] Despite Spain's prolonged 2008-2015 economic crisis during which the country suffered years of massive unemployment and went from having the second highest immigration rate in the world to becoming a net-emigrant country, less than 30% of Spain's Latin American immigrants have left the country during this period. [10]
Moroccans in Spain (Arabic: المغاربة في إسبانيا; Spanish: Marroquíes en España) formed 16.4% of the 4,549,858 foreigners in Spain as of 1 January 2017. [5] They are again the largest foreign group in Spain, after they were surpassed temporarily by Romanians in 2007.
Spain cannot cope with irregular immigration without help from the European Union, the prime minister said on Thursday as the bloc seeks a deal on handling new arrivals less than a year before ...
Most Indians originally migrated to Spain from Africa, while others came from India and even Japan and Southeast Asia. [4] The overwhelming majority of Indians in Spain live in the Barcelona area (over 26,000 as of 2019). [citation needed] According to data from 2021, Indians in Spain number more than 57,000 (0.12% of the total population). [1]
Spanish producers Batiak Films and Elora Posthouse have boarded Maria Paz Barragán’s immigration horror feature “Tenants” as co-producers. The Madrid-set feature will be pitched at this ...