MADRID .- A comparative study of immigrant integration policies in 31 countries in Europe and North America, puts Spain in the eighth best place in overall, but fails in education and facilities to gain citizenship.
By contrast, Spain leads the standings on issues such as economic integration and access to family life, today highlighted the responsibility of III Integration Policy Index of Migrants (MIPEX, for its acronym in English).
Prepared by the British Council and Migration Policy Group, the report examines whether governments grant the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities to all residents, following the international standards agreed between the member states of the EU .
Today's report, prepared with data from 2009, notes that Spain is the largest recipient of immigration in Europe with 3,376,810 nationals of third countries and which is at the head of the new countries of immigration on economic integration and access to family life.
Thus, Spain is the eighth best place thanks to "all residents regardless of their nationality, have the same legal opportunities to gain employment, and increased labor rights and guarantees associated with it, "says the report.
However, it noted that" as in most countries, has only partially addressed the disproportionate impact of the crisis on foreign residents.
Thus, on a scale of 1 to a hundred, Spain gets 85 points for the facilities given to family reunification, and 84 on mobility in the labor market.
measures also for the long-term foreign residents get a high score (78).
Lower than but still above the average, English punctuation in facilitating the political participation of foreigners, a category that Spain gets 56 points.
At the other end of the analyzed parameters are the measures to prevent discrimination (49) "due to lack of strength of bodies charged with this issue" and easier access to citizenship (39) that the study considers they are "the worst way of obtaining the citizenship of the newcomers and their descendants."
Spain also suspended in a category that includes this year's report for the first time, that of education, where gets 49 points and placed in thirteenth place, but also recognizes "new strengths in access to schools and education for citizenship."
The presentation ceremony was also attended by Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration, Anna Terron, who has acknowledged that "we must improve" in many respects, but also highlighted immigration in Spain is a relatively new phenomenon and Suddenly, who has had to adapt very quickly.
This is compounded by the complexity of having to agree to most of these policies with the autonomous regions and municipalities.
Terron has also argued that the report is based only on the existing rules and not attending to the context and manner in which they apply.
example, has argued that although the law provides 10 years of residency to get residency, the fact is that Latin American immigrants can be obtained in only two.
Regarding education, the secretary of state has raised the opportunity to judge Spain by the levels of the second generation of immigrants, first generation as the country reaches adulthood and work, and are his children those who benefit from educational rights.
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