The immigration figures: Who are you calling immigrant?
It published the Report on Migration 2011 International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the same day released the data means: “The Spanish think that coexist with more immigrants than there are in reality“.
Great news: in Spain are believed to be a 21% immigrant population when in reality the figure is 14%. Where does the misperception? The IOM proposes a cause: there is no common understanding about the meaning of the word “Immigration”. And here, with a candor pasmante, clarifies: the respondents and grouped under the same term for migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers and even students or tourists.
Let me point other cause: the idea of Spanishness. When we say “be Spanish” imagine a white prototype is necessarily, probably Catholic and Castilian possibly. A Sanchez Gonzalez or any. Blond or blonde as much. An old Christian, was said before.
In this prototype is difficult to include the real Spain where they live and grow several generations of Spanish who are neither blancxs, ni ni católicxs if apellidan Martínez Soria. People have come and done from here or people born here. Not that they are Spanish and they do not really; Nor is that they are “mixture” the “mestizos”, as they are also called, much less to be so terrible that has been called “immigrant second, third or fourth generation”, as if the migration of the parents is inherited by sons and daughters.
The error is in the prototype: the Perez white Catholics are perhaps most, but they are not and never were the only way of being and belonging.
More:
Report on Migration 2011 IOM
PD: Looking for photo to accompany this post I Cross with the definition given in Wikipedia Concha Buika: “Concha Buika(No Palma de Mallorca; 1972)Afro-singer.”
This, clearly, deserve another post…
