Minister rebuffs proposed blanket amnesty for migrants
The Minister of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has defended a case-by-case analysis of the situation of each migrant…
Refugees & Migration
Canaries migrant arrivals already reach last year’s total
Spain’s Canary Islands are experiencing an “exponential increase” in the arrival of migrants to the islands off Morocco’s Atlantic coast so far…
Migrants released from processing centres amid crisis
Spain’s Interior Ministry has announced that due the COVID-19 crisis it has freed all undocumented migrants awaiting processing in five of the…
Spain supports Greece over migrant crisis at border
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Wednesday expressed the Spanish government’s support of Greece in the face of a humanitarian crisis caused…
Podemos: migrant deportations breach coalition pact
The response by Spain’s Interior Minister to last week’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upholding express deportations of…
European rights court OKs Spain’s ‘express’ deportations
A ruling on migrant rights by the European Court of Human Rights last week has placed the new coalition government led by…
NGOs combat FGM among African migrant communities
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has added its voice to non-governmental organizations working to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation…
NGO says migrant rights violated by Spain, Morocco
A non-governmental organization working to defend migrant rights in Spain says the reduction of some 50 percent in the flow of immigration…
Minister says migrants key to pension system solvency
In an unusual pitch that runs counter-current to the fear-mongering, anti-immigrant rhetoric of nationalist parties across Europe in recent years, Spain’s new…
Grenade attack on migrant-youth centre reviled by VOX
A migrant-youth shelter in Madrid’s Hortaleza neighbourhood that was reviled by Spain’s ultra-right VOX party in a campaign video in the run-up…
Boat migrant influx down 55pct, despite rise in Canaries
The number of arrivals of migrants and asylum seekers arriving to Spanish shores by boat has fallen by 54.7 percent this year,…
Huge influx of asylum seekers overwhelms shelters
A huge influx of asylum seekers in the past year — primarily from Venezuela and other Latin American countries — has led…
Razor wire at North African border fences to be removed
Spain’s Interior Ministry has confirmed that work to remove the controversial razor-wire that tops border fences separating Morocco from the Spanish North…
NGOs demand probe over Vox anti-immigrant videos
Seven Spanish non-governmental organizations have called on the government’s Fiscalia General attorney general’s office to investigate whether controversial election campaign videos produced…
Carmena returns to running non-profit clothing NGO
► Madrid’s former progressive mayor goes back to work with NGO she founded ► Zapatelas sells children’s clothing made by migrant women,…
Migrant boat arrivals from N. Africa drop by 45 percent
► Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska credits combined efforts by Spain, Morocco ► 15,683 migrants arrived from Jan-Aug versus 28,642 in same period last…
Open Arms ready to risk jail in rescuing migrants at sea
► ‘Better to be jailed than complicit’ says migrant rescue NGO’s founder ► Group will no longer abide by accord to desist…
Open Arms sets sail with humanitarian aid for migrants
The flagship vessel of Barcelona-based Proactiva Open Arms migrant rescue organization set sail Tuesday with a shipment of humanitarian aid for migrants…
UN report details abuse of migrants en route to Spain
More than half of migrants and refugees who arrive to Spain by boat from North Africa have denounced some form of abuse…
Gov’t plan aims to reverse Spaniards’ migration abroad
A plan announced late last month by the government of President Pedro Sánchez to underwrite the return to Spain of as many…
NGOs urge social justice agenda for election manifestos
Spanish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the country’s political parties to include commitments to social justice in their party manifestos in…
PSOE campaign video links prostitution, sex-trafficking
Tipped to win the most number of seats in Spain’s elections of deputies to the European Parliament (EP) in May, Spain’s Socialist…
Morocco clears Spanish activist of migrant trafficking
Spanish migration rights activist Helena Maleno has been unconditionally freed by Morocco after a district court in Tangiers dismissed charges of immigration…
Spain migrant arrivals spike, overall EU migration falls
Although illegal migration to Europe dropped significantly in 2018, a shift in Mediterranean migration routes made Spain the main point of entry…
UN: Spain now migrants’ principal gateway to Europe
Spain will continue to be the principal entry point to Europe for migrants and refugees fleeing unstable economic conditions and violence in…
More migrants arriving illegally than 2015-17 combined
More than 59,000 migrants have arrived to Spain illegally by land and sea in the first 11 months of 2018, representing an…
Migrant deaths continue as arrivals by sea skyrocket
Four migrants attempting to reach Spain died at the weekend and Spanish authorities are still searching for bodies of 13 others in…
NGOs launch mobile app to combat discrimination
A national network of 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) defending the rights and promoting the inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Spain has…
Spain deports migrants who scaled Melilla border fence
More than 200 mainly Sub-Sahara African migrants managed to scale the border fence separating Morocco and the Spanish enclave city of Melilla…
Gov’t appeals EU court ruling on migrant expulsions
The government of Spain outlined its challenge in Strasbourg on Wednesday to an adverse ruling by the European Court of Human Rights…
Spaniards remain most receptive to refugees in Europe
Spaniards are the most receptive among Europeans to the arrival of refugees from war-torn countries, according to results of a recent global…