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Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence [1] with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). [2] Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). [3] A migrant emigrates from their old country, and immigrates to their ...
Spain accepted 478,990 new immigrant residents in just the first six months of 2022 alone. During these months, 220,443 people also emigrated from Spain, leaving a record-breaking net migration figure of 258,547. [8] More women than men chose to move to Spain during 2022; this is due to higher rates of emigration from Latin America. [8]
Over the nineteenth century, the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo was the subject of a mass migration of Spaniards, most of whom came from the Canary Islands. [29] Due to this migration, it decreased the amount of non-whites in the colony with the black population dropping to 12%, the mulatto population to 8%, and the quadroons to 31%.
The supply of Portuguese and Spanish people willing to emigrate was so high that the Spanish and Portuguese governments even had to restrict emigration to the Americas [3] (very early Spain had restricted emigration to the Spanish West Indies [5] and Portugal had to pass three laws prohibiting the migration of people from the Portuguese ...
European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas [ 38 ] can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent.
Some migration is for personal reasons, based on a relationship (e.g. to be with family or a partner), such as in family reunification or transnational marriage (especially in the instance of a gender imbalance). Recent research has found gender, age, and cross-cultural differences in the ownership of the idea to immigrate. [46]
In the period between 2011 and 2013, over one million immigrants acquired Spanish citizenship and over 75% of these were Latin American. [6] As an example, by 2014 the majority of Spain's 408,944 Ecuadorian-born residents had already acquired Spanish citizenship and were no longer included national statistics tracking immigration. [7]
[5] [6] Migration fell again in 2020 due to a lack of long-distance flights because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 7 ] While ten years is the usual minimum for a foreigner to acquire Spanish nationality by residency, Latin Americans – including Brazilians – can achieve it in two years.