Suburbanisation versus recentralisation. Changes in the effect of international migration inflows on the largest Spanish metropolitan areas (2000-2010)
[eng] This paper analyses how international immigration developments have influenced the population change and composition in Spain's largest urban areas, focusing on the impact of foreigners on suburbanisation and re-centralisation dynamics. Since 2000, Spain has been the European country with...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/166458 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/166458 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Migració (Població) Estrangers Desenvolupament urbà Àrees metropolitanes Espanya Migration (Population) Foreigner Urban development Metropolitan areas Spain |
| Sumario: | [eng] This paper analyses how international immigration developments have influenced the population change and composition in Spain's largest urban areas, focusing on the impact of foreigners on suburbanisation and re-centralisation dynamics. Since 2000, Spain has been the European country with the largest international migration inflows. As a result, the share of foreign residents has increased from a mere 2.3% in 2000 to 12.2% in 2010. Moreover, they have unevenly settled throughout the country, concentrating in specific provinces specialised in tourism, services or in-tensive agriculture jobs, as well as in large urban areas. The paper concentrates on this latter aspect, analysing Spain's fifteen largest metropolitan areas, with more than half a million inhabitants. In 2010, percentages of foreigners living in these core cities range from 17.5% and 17.4% in Barcelona and Madrid to 5.3% or 1.7% in Seville and Cadiz. After two decades of stagnation or even decrease, central city figures clearly regained strength, due to foreign immigration, during this 2000-2010 period. At the same time, suburbanisation - to which foreigners also contributed - has also intensified. The paper provides an overview of recent population changes in Spanish metropolitan areas, evaluates the effect of the massive arrival of foreign immigrants on Spain's urban development - analysing cores and peripheries sepa-rately; and assesses the impact of the economic crisis which started in 2008, on these trends. |
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