Spanish emigration to the UK rises threefold in 10 years
Monday, May 13, 2013 @ 6:33 PM
THE number of Spanish people who have emigrated to the UK has trebled in the past decade, recent studies claim.
Around 11,000 moved to Britain in 2002, compared to 30,000 in 2011, according to head of the High Council for Scientific Investigations (CSIC), Amparo González.
But she does not believe the economic crisis in Spain is the main driving factor.
Although González, an expert in sociology, says the number of Spanish people who got their first National Insurance numbers in the UK to be able to work went up by 6,000 in just one year between 2010 and 2011, which shows an 'evident' impact caused by the recession in their home country, she says moving abroad is 'a costly and risky exercise' that requires resources such as a human support network, sound knowledge of the language of the destination country, enough money to get settled until they find stable work and get their first pay packet, and no financial or family ties in Spain.
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