La crisis económica en España: permanencia y retorno de los inmigrantes búlgaros y rumanos

Abstract

The article examines the behavior of Eastem Europe immigrants in Spain in the current context of economic crisis. lt starts emphasizing on the labour motivation for which large part of this group of immigrants’ arrivals took place since the beginning of 2000. Using the rich variety of Bulgarians’, Rumanians’, Moldavians’ and Ucranians’ opinions in combination with available statistic data, the article tries to order the reasons why the majority prefers to remain in Spain even taking into account the economic crisis severity and the persistence and the strong downturn within the labour market.