Given that I am studying immigration law in Spain, I should be keeping my readers up to date about the issues related to my topic. A post on my research should be coming in the next month; the topic merits a long-ranging discussion of my discoveries over the last three and a half months.
In the meanwhile, I have come across two interesting pieces on the relationship between Spain and a small village in Morocco, Hansala. The first article discusses how an small Spanish NGO's co-development work with the people of Hansala has allowed the village to prosper. The second piece is a profile of a young man who immigrated to Spain from Hansala, only to see his younger brother perish in the sea when he tried to follow in his older brother's footsteps years later.
I should note that the majority of immigrants to Spain are Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Bolivians, and Argentinians; immigrants from these countries suplanted North African/Sub-Saharan immigrants as the largest immigration group in Spain around 2004-2005. Consequently, these stories reflect only a small fraction of the immigrant experience in this country.
The post on inaugural day celebration along with some photos will be up in the next two days.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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