MUSLIMS IMMIGRATION IN SPAIN

Muslims Immigration in Spain



Abstract

This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also regarding admittance policies and the rights and benefits to grant to foreigners. In general, Spaniards support less immigration, and more selectivity based on skills and qualifications, but not reduced rights and benefits for immigrants. Skilled natives have more positive attitudes about immigration, in spite of the potential fiscal burden it implies for them. Respondents believing that immigration drops natives' wages tended to oppose immigration and endorse reducing the benefits and rights granted to immigrants. More negative attitudes were found among individuals who dislike other races, while the opposite was found for those valuing cultural diversity. Muslim respondents favor more restrictive admission policies, in particular ones based on cultural factors. Respondents in provinces with high immigration and a high proportion of Moroccans wanted lower levels of immigration, though having contact with immigrants reduces the negative attitudes toward them. Individuals overestimating the levels of immigration are more prone to have negative attitudes toward immigrants.

Table of Content

CHAPTER ONE4

INTRODUCTION4

Recent immigration in Spain7

CHAPTER TWO10

LITERATURE REVIEW10

Recent history of Islam in Spain12

The 11 March 2004 attacks19

The situation in Ceuta and Melilla27

CHAPTER THREE29

METHODOLOGY29

Research Method29

Literature Selection Criteria29

Search Technique30

Keywords Used30

Theoretical Framework30

CHAPTER FOUR31

DISCUSSION31

CHAPTER FIVE41

CONCLUSION41

REFERENCES45

APPENDIX48

Chapter One

Introduction

Spain has historic been advised a homeland of emigration, but this has lately changed. The year 2000 was a rotating issue, as since then the immigration topic has been on the political agenda. Indeed, the administrative organisations for organising immigration were conceived between 2000 and 2004. Spain's immigration regulation was changed four times throughout that time span and four regularization methods were implemented. A farther 600,000 immigrants underwent a regularization method in 2005. Immigration is the most significant socio-economic change that has taken location in Spain in latest years, putting an end to Spain's demographic stagnation and energizing its economy. Between the years 2001 and 2006, 50% of GDP development was be obliged to the affirmative effect that immigration had had on per capita earnings (Cámara Madrid, 2007, Pg 45).

Immigration in Spain is therefore a latest phenomenon. As a outcome, there are no clear forms with which to approach this topic, neither are there well-established communal organisations to deal with likely confrontations or communal confrontations. There is still much to be finished and while this is the origin of doubt, it is furthermore the source of numerous possibilities to advance and discover from other European experiences. This paper begins from the assumption that the method of integration in Spain is distinct from that in other EU nations and that it is assessed by two major characteristics. First, immigrants from Muslim nations are less in number than immigrants from Latin American countries. Second, the reality of household terrorism, through the Basque separatist assembly ETA, tempers the influence of stress and confrontations from fundamental Islam. Recent samples show that immigration and terrorism are amidst the major anxieties of ...