The Years of Migratory Policy: Moving on towards Responsibility

Abstract

During the last decade, Spanish governments have been learning a simple lesson from immigration: States must not go behind the migration flows guideline. In these ten years, migration policies have changed from being basically securitarian to being inclusive, despite in the last four years they have been reconverting to the most controlling and persecutory migration policies ever. In our opinion, Spain has had a continual migration policy in the last 10 years, marked by the immigration control and the persecution of the illegal immigration; this is a clear sign of its belonging to Shengen Area.