La política española de inmigración y los intereses económicos de España en el extranjero
- 1 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
ISSN: 1405-7425, 2448-7147
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 23
Issue: 93
Pages: 127-150
Type: Article
More publications in: Papeles de población
Abstract
In the 1990s Spain emerged as an immigration country, becoming in 2008 the second country with the highest number of foreigners in the 15-member European Union. The increasing impor-tance of Spain as the destination for international migrations was used by the Spanish govern-ment to design a migration policy that favoured the internationalization of Spanish companies. During the period 2000-2005, the migration policy facilitated the entrance of Latin Americans to the Spanish territory and, simultaneously, the entrance of Spanish Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America. Subsequently, since 2006, the migration policy focused on the externalisation of the control of migration flows through the signature of migration agreements with different African countries where the Official Development Assistance was increased