Migration in Spain (1956 - 1965)

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    Spain

    The historical background:
    On the 50's in Spain there was a calm situation after the civil war. Because of this they're trying to scape from the poorness and making better everything that the war had destroied.
    After, in the 1959 the dictatorship of Franco started. This man was very radical and didn't let people have freedom of expression. He wanted Spain to be a place where everyone talked only Spanish and thought in the same way. 
    In 1955 he was recluted in the ONU and that made the economy and the developmentness of the cities develop even more. Also the ONU makes the quality of life increase.
    This dictatorship lasted til 1975, when he died. Ich 

    Effects of this integration wave:
    The effects that this provocated we're because of the Cold War, when the economy of Spain decreased.
    Also on the 60's he tried to enter Spain into the CEE.

    Reasons for emigrating form their home country:
    Demographers distinguish factors at the origin that push people out, versus those at the destination that pull them in. Motives to migrate can be either incentives attracting people away, known as pull factors, or circumstances encouraging a person to leave.

    Push factors:    

    • Lack of employment or entrepreneurial opportunities
    • Lack of educational opportunities
    • Lack of political or religious rights
    • Threat of arrest or punishment
    • Persecution or intolerance based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation
    • Inability to find a spouse for marriage.
    • Lack of freedom to choose religion, or to choose no religion
    • Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms (historically)
    • Oppressive legal or political conditions
    • Struggling or Failing economy
    • Military draft, warfare or terrorism
    • Famine or drought
    • Cultural fights with other cultural group
    • Expulsion by armed force or coercion
    • Overpopulation.

    Pull factor:

    • Favourable letters relatives or informants who have already moved; chain migration
    • Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children
    • Cheap purchase of farmland
    • Quick wealth (as in a gold rush)
    • More job opportunities
    • Promise of higher pay
    • Prepaid travel (as from relatives)
    • Better welfare programmes
    • Better schools
    • Join relatives who have already moved; chain migration
    • Building a new nation (historically)
    • Building specific cultural or religious communities
    • Political freedom
    • Cultural opportunities
    • Greater opportunity to find a spouse
    • Favorable climate
    • Easygoing to across the boundaries

     

    Reasons for immigrating into Spain:
    The reasons why people would want to immigrare into Spain were because it is an open nation concerning the immigration. Many people think that Spanish people are very interesting. Also in Spain there was good commercial relations and good educational background.
    The advantages for the latin americans to immigrate to Spain was that they could have the same language.

     


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