Emigration from Spain

Emigration to Germany

2009-2014: The second wave of emigration

For February, 2014 thousands of young Spaniards emigrating to Germany in search of jobs make the second in value group of representatives of this nation, conceding only to labor migrants of the 1960th years. The Spaniards who arrived to Germany since 2009 make 22% of the total number of the fellow citizens in the country (26 thousand human. The number of those who live in its territory more than 40 years is 39 thousand people (32%)^[1].

The federal statistical agency Destatis notes that from January, 2010 to October of the 2013th the of Spaniards in Germany grew by 16,229 people (+16%) – up to 120,231. As well as in case of their predecessors who arrived in the 1960th years they were forced to leave the native land in job searches. It concerns both permanent labor contracts, and so-called mini jobs, part-time employment for 40 hours a month and with the salary in the amount up to 450 euros.

According to Destatis, nearly a half of the Spaniards living in Germany as of October, 2013 took a workplace:

• 43% work on permanent places,
• 6% - according to the scheme of part-time employment,
• and another 5% go on the dole.

In spite of the fact that representatives of both migration waves are integrated by difficult economic and labor conditions, their profiles considerably differ from each other. If in the XX century most of migrants were natives of rural areas, had practically no education and worked in the field of the industry, then in the 2010th it is about Spaniards from the large cities. They prefer to live in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt or Hamburg, have university education and know foreign languages. For simplification of process of their adaptation in the German labor market more than 180 programs of bilateral mobility were created in recent years.

See Also

• Spain
• Citizenship of Spain
• Economy of Spain

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