Abstract
This chapter examines emigration patterns of the Latin American population from Spain abroad during the period 2002–2012, with a particular focus on the period before and after the 2008 crisis. The analysis is based on micro-data from the municipal register and takes into account two types of international move: returns to the country of birth and emigration to other countries. The chapter reviews the potential and limitations of Spanish data sources on international emigration, provides estimates of the intensity and demographic characteristics of the two types of migration and discusses the impact of the crisis on each migration flow as well as their regional distribution.
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Data based on the population register (“Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales (EVR)”). Microdata available at: http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_varires.htm.
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Own estimation based on microdata from Spain’s Population Register 2002–2012. Available at: http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_varires.htm.
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In order to get these rates we have carried out a quarterly estimation of the Latin-American population by country of birth from the population figures by the Continuous Register (Padrón Continuo), from which annual data are available with the reference date of January the 1st for each year during the period 2002–2031. Data on flows have been directly provided by the Statistics on Residential Variations (Estadísticas de Variaciones Residenciales—EVR).
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Eurostat Statistics Database, available at http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home. Accessed on February 1st 2011.
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Ministerio Nacional de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación. Information available from http://www.maec.es/es/MenuPpal/Consulares/ServiciosConsulares/InformacionaExtranjeros/Visados/Documents/AnejoI_DIC09.pdf.
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The interpretation of the Gross Migraproduction Rates is the following: if the outmigration rates by age for the analysed period is reproduced for a fictitious generation throughout their lives, the age rate accumulated propensity would represent the potential number of emigrations that this generation would experience.
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Own calculations based on microdata from the population register (EVR) for 2006–2012. Microdata available at: http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_varires.htm.
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Labour Force Surveys -“Encuesta de Población Activa”- 2008. Data available at: http://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=4133.
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http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=migr_reslong&lang=en.
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This paper has been carried out in the framework of the research project: Inflexión del ciclo económico y transformaciones de las migraciones en España (CSO2010–19177), funded by the Ministry of Education and Science, National R+D+I Plan 2007–2010.
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Recaño, J., Roig, M., de Miguel, V. (2015). Spain: A New Gravity Centre for Latin American Migration. In: Domingo, A., Sabater, A., Verdugo, R. (eds) Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain. Applied Demography Series, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12361-5_8
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