Spain before the crisis had quickly jumped from a country with little or no immigration to the country with the highest immigration rate outside the United States. Now that the economy and in particular the construction sector have slumped, these immigrants are out of work and often out of income. What is the right thing to do?
The latest labor-market survey (EPA), for the 4th quarter of 2010, showed that the unemployment rate for native Spaniards was 18.47%, compared with 30.4% for foreigners. Of an estimated population of 4.7 million working-aged foreigners in Spain at the end of 2010, nearly 1.1 million were looking for work actively and were unable to find it. According to a different INE series, nearly half a million foreigners had been out of work for more than a year. Of this number, more than a third came from regions outside of Europe and Latin America.
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