Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain: From Boom to Bust (Applied Demography Series Book 5)

This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their rapid acquisition of nationality, their contrasting patterns of migration and settlement compared to other immigrant groups, their labour market experiences before and during the economic recession, their reproductive behaviour before and after settling in Spain, as well as the push and pull factors of what is regarded as one of the single biggest waves of international migration ever experienced by Spain. Beyond the investigation of such pertinent topics, this book addresses issues relating to the adequacy of demographic theory in explaining the presence of Latin American immigrants in Spain, particularly the trailblazing presence of women among the immigrants. Spain unquestionably constitutes a good example of the fact that the future of demographic growth in post-transitional countries is mainly and irreversibly marked by the evolution of migratory movements, while the latter factor is closely linked with the economic state of affairs. In the short term at least, the causal relations go from economy to demography. In the long term, if economic growth is linked with demographic growth as some economists hypothesise, this would also be fundamental, not only in the sense of growth itself but also with regard to how this might be distributed. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Push and Pull Factors of Latin American Migration....Pages 1-27 Acquisition of Nationality as Migration Policy....Pages 29-54 Contrasting Patterns of Migration and Settlement....Pages 55-82 Entrapped as Domestic Workers? The Effect of Economic Context on Work Opportunities....Pages 83-103 The Nexus Between Occupational and Residential Segregation....Pages 105-131 A Longitudinal Analysis of Reproductive Behavior....Pages 133-153 Living Arrangements, the Crisis and Mother’s Participation in the Labour Market....Pages 155-180 Spain: A New Gravity Centre for Latin American Migration....Pages 181-209 Back Matter....Pages 211-215