Out-migration of immigrants in Spain

Migration responses of immigrants in Spain during the Great Recession

“…The internal migration rates within the agricultural regions of the United States and Spain are particularly high among the foreign-born population (Durand and Massey 2003;Torre-Cantalapiedra and Giorguli 2015;Recaño and Roig 2006;Recaño and de Miguel 2012). Conversely, in both contexts, return migration has been shown to be higher from regions where services or manufacturing sectors correspond to larger shares of GDP (Torre-Cantalapiedra and Giorguli 2015; Recaño, Roig, and de Miguel 2015) or higher unemployment rates (Larramona 2013).…”

“…For example, a study of Mexican immigrants in the United States has shown that regular residence status or naturalization reduces the odds of return migration and increases the probability of experiencing an internal migration within the United States (Torre-Cantalapiedra and Giorguli 2015). Although the simultaneous study of the drivers of international emigration and internal migration has no precedent in Spain, research on these individual patterns of behaviour has shown that being a Spanish citizen increases the odds of experiencing nonreturn forms of emigration 7 among the foreign-born population (Larramona 2013;Recaño, Roig, and de Miguel 2015) and reduces the odds of internal migration (QuinteroLesmes 2016; Recaño and de Miguel 2012). Regarding the determinants of mobility in the region of origin, the sectoral structure of the local economy has also been shown to play a differential role for internal migration and international emigration.…”

“…We are unable to establish causality for competing risk of both types of event since we analysed cross-sectional data from the Residential Variation Statistics published by the Spanish National Statistics Office, and this data does not include information on people who do not move and is not longitudinal. Instead, we compare the probability of any form of international emigration versus internal migration, an approach similar to that used in Larramona's study of emigration from Spain for 2002-2009(Larramona 2013. In contrast with this author's work, we have used data from 2006 to 2013, covering a period when data for emigration was better captured by the Residential Variation Statistics -the same data source used by Larramona.…”

“…Migration responses to the 2008 Spanish financial crisis have generated considerable interest among scholars in this field, with the greatest attention paid to return migration (Cerrutti and Maguid 2016;Recaño and Jáuregui 2014;López de Lera and Pérez-Carames 2015;Recaño, Roig, and de Miguel 2015), followed by remigration (Larramona 2013;Mateos 2015;Pereira 2012;Mas-Giralt 2016). However, with a few exceptions, the changes in internal migration have been largely overlooked (QuinteroLesmes 2016; Bayona-i-Carrasco, Thiers Quintana, and Avila Tàpies 2017).…”

Research on Ukrainian Migration to Spain: Moving Beyond the Exploratory Approach

“…In recent years they have become an important source for the exploration of this phenomenon (Larramona 2013;Parella and Petroff 2014). Although increasingly used, this source is not without its flaws.…”