Legislation and public policies in Spain, regarding immigration and its insertion in the labor market

Abstract

Spain up to the last third of the twentieth century has traditionally been a country of emigrants, a situation which has been reversed since the 1980s. The complex reality of mass immigration at the beginning of the 1990s largely exceeded the regulations in force in this respect, so that it had to be transformed and Community legislation had to be applied, as a result of Spain’s accession to the European Union, new rules on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and their social integration emerged. The investigation focuses on the analysis of the study, as well as on the case law produced in this regard.