Spain's popularity continues to grow

April 13, 2007

Last year 98,000 EU citizens made Spain their new home.

In the past five years, Spain has become the country which receives the second highest number of immigrants after the U.S.

A report by the BBVA Bank Foundation found half of the new arrivals came to stay in Spain and had no intention of returning home.

Eight out of ten new members of the population are foreigners, says the report, called the Demographics of Foreigners.

“The intensity of migration to Spain has never been so strong as in the past six years,” said Antonio Izquierdo, professor of sociology at the University of Cordoba, who wrote the report.

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