Search

Analysing multilocality as a specific integration pattern among retirement migrants is the aim of the paper. The study shows how the search for quality of life leads retirees to make use of different properties, placed either in origin and/or destination countries. The results of quantitative and qualitative research point out that the property in the origin country is a key factor to explain migrant's lifestyle and their social integration in Spain. Furthermore, the multilocal behaviour is not equally distributed among the retirees, as it is conditioned by some migrant's socio-demographic features such as nationality or household income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the underlying variables of return intention of migrants in Spain's Madrid Region, who are segmented by their legal status. The microdata source is the Regional Immigration Survey 2011-2012. Using a sample of 563 individuals, we formulated two research questions to determine the importance of legal status in return intentions and to find the main explanatory variables of return intention for both legal and illegal immigrants, such as personal factors, job market success and social and contextual factors. To answer these research questions, we developed a binomial logit model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La población magrebí ha sido uno de los colectivos inmigrantes más numerosos en el territorio español desde finales del siglo XX, lo que ha motivado que posea una notable representación en sus medios de comunicación. Por ello, este trabajo ha tenido como objetivo examinar el tratamiento de las informaciones publicadas sobre la población magrebí y los aspectos teóricos del binomio framing-mundo araboislámico en los periódicos de tirada nacional y regional en España durante la crisis. Para llevar a cabo el estudio, se empleó una metodología mixta basada en el análisis de contenido cuantitativo y cualitativo. El análisis concluye que el frame más habitual es el de interés humano, aunque se ofrezca una representación negativa de este colectivo, un hecho que puede derivar en actitudes y discursos críticos con lo araboislámico. The Maghreb population has been one of the largest groups of immigrants in Spain since the end of the 20th century. This has led to a noteworthy representation in the Spanish media. By focusing on national and regional newspapers during the economic crisis in Spain, the paper aims at examining the treatment of the Maghreb population and certain theoretical aspects of binomial framing of the Arab-Islamic world. A mixed methodology based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of content was used to carry out this study. The analysis concludes that the most common frame is human interest, although a negative representation of this group is offered, a fact that may lead to critical discourse and attitudes towards the Arab-Islamic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Access to a nationality from a European Union (eu) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the eu and their families. This paper explores access to Spanish citizenship, through an innovative methodology, "net-nography". We analyzed an Internet discussion group (41 000 posts and 2 860 individuals), where migrants share their concerns about the cumbersome Spanish naturalization process. We identify a series of strategies to access Spanish citizenship that seek to maximize the possibilities given by residence experience in Spain or Spanish ancestry (a sort of family endowment that we call "ethnic capital" here). These factors create an unequal pattern in the "geography of naturalization", marked by the history of Spanish emigration and immigration policies, woven together in the complex web of the personal experiences of migrants, who are constantly faced with the question: residence or ancestry? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration radically changes children's lives, as well as affecting affinities and generational conflicts in Peruvian families, and spheres of exchange and generational meeting between members that had remained distanced, at times during years. The projects of familiar migration are increasingly associated with children's well-being and development. This paper examines children's participation in migratory processes as social actors in their daily lives and the construction of the family relations when they are regrouped in Barcelona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that the fight against the so-called clandestine immigration is one of the priority principles of the European policy on immigration, the unauthorized migration flows have continued to increase in recent years in countries like Spain. The factors that must be taken into account when searching for explanations and alternatives to this phenomenon are numerous, one of which is situated in the legal field. Considering the Spanish case as a benchmark, this paper tries to point out the deficiency of the legal measures that have been taken so far to face the issue of irregular immigration. These questions demonstrate the need of a thorough review of the mechanisms that currently constitute the legal answer to irregularity, giving priority, as this article suggests, to flexible channels which allow human mobility in the shape of economic migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes one type of transnational migrant practices, affective and care ties, from a family perspective, including the overlapping of productive and reproductive spheres. It uses a transnational perspective on migration to explore the relationships and practices linking migrants to their societies of origin. To this end, it examines the practices of 'transnational families' in two migrant groups: Peruvian and Ecuadorian migrants living in Spain and their counterparts in their countries of origin. The study explores the elements of continuity and change in family relations as a result of migratory processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]