La reagrupación familiar de africanos y latinoamericanos en la Espa?a mediterránea. Dinámicas y estructuras sociodemográficas

摘要

The amount of foreigners authorised to live in Spain as residents between 2006 and 2009 due to family reunification reflects the significance of this type of immigration in the number of new registered foreigners. This research is based on a specific survey carried out on Africans and Latin Americans, who also provide information on the family members who have joined them here, in accordance with reunification laws or not. Africans and Latin Americans have very different dynamics and socio-demographic structures due, amongst other reasons, to the antiquity of their flows, their fertility rates, their command of Spanish, their level of education, their possibility of income, their structure by sex and age, the size of the reunited families, etc. Information is provided on both continental groups and family subgroups —those who reunite the family, spouses, children, parents and other family members— using scales for the group studied and for the geographical area —coastal Catalonia, the Region of Valencia, Murcia and Almeria—. Africans report the most negative structural aspects —Spanish language, education, income, etc.—; nevertheless it is this group that claim to have more firm and generalised intentions of staying in Spain. The conclusions in this paper give an indication of future flows for these two groups.