Inversion du sens des flux migratoires ?

Have the tables of migration turned ?

Infographie : F. Descheemaekere

[Euros du Village]

The 16th century : the Spanish conquest provides 250 000 Spaniards with the chance to migrate to Latin America in search of the promises of the ‘New World’. The 21st century : the opposite occurs, with thousands of Latin Americans seeking a better life in Europe. Yet once again the trend seems to be reversing, as the economic crisis worsens.

In the ten years before 2008, Spain saw its population grow by nearly a fifth. Yet recent figures show a decrease in immigrants and loss of foreign residents (228,890 within the first 6 months of 2012). Moreover, the departure of Spain’s own younger generation has become increasingly worrying. They head anywhere the prospects are more attractive, meaning significant numbers (60%) of the departing Spaniards leave the EU ; many head for the emerging markets of South America. In 2011, 63 000 Spaniards left their homeland and, in the first half of this year, the number of emigrants has increased by 44%. Such figures have not been seen since the 1960s. The INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) predicts a loss of almost a million Spaniards within the next decade, a phenomenon the president of the non-profit Migration Policy Institute in Washington, Demetrios Papademetriou, described as, ‘a haemorrhaging of highly educated people’.
With the youth unemployment rate passing 50% this year, it is therefore hardly a surprise that Spain has become a net exporter of people. Yet worrying levels of ‘exportation’ of a young and auspicious generation are not confined to Spain ;

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