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Statewatch News Online: Spain: New Foreigners' Law Regulation
28 March 2012
Spain:
New Foreigners' Law Regulation
The governing PSOE (Socialist Party) has approved a new Regulation
for the implementation of the Ley de Extranjería (Foreigners'
Law). It does not involve a substantial change in direction or
goals (ie. the management of migratory flows in accordance with
the requirements of the labour market). It is a direction that
reduces millions of people to the status of cheap labour, who
also have a beneficial effect as their presence helps bring about
demographic recovery.
The government's emphasis on using the underground economy to
control irregularity is unilateralist because it devalues the
reason for emigration and ignores the mechanisms on which the
illegal situation of hundreds of thousand of people have been
constructed. These mechanisms are embedded in immigration policy
and the law on foreigners: the visa policy; the inflexible procedures
for applying for authorisation to work; the opaque functioning
and ill-treatment that occurs in consulates; the incompatibility
between administrative procedures and the workings of the labour
market; the failure of the pure quota system; the visa system
used for seeking employment (which does not work); and the ill-functioning
system based on length of residence. All these factors, preclude
a meaningful change in policy, which would require considerably
more than a change in the Regulation for the implementation of
the immigration law.
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