Country case study on the impacts of restrictions and entitlements on the integration of family migrants: qualitative findings

Resumen

Finally, the policies related to the post-entry conditions once family migrants arrive in Spain will be analyzed in relation to the pre- entry conditions of the family reunification procedure, in order to gain a general understanding of the Spanish migration regime and its consideration of family migration. [...] First, the methodology for the research will be described, with regards to the selection of the local contexts, the interviews and the workshops. [...] As will be explained in the following section dedicated to the local and regional institutions, the approach adopted by the City Council of Barcelona is different to the approach adopted by the City Council of Madrid and most cities located in the metropolitan area of the capital. [...] On the one hand, a formal claim can be presented to one of the Forum for the Social Integration of Migrants, as the organisms in charge of migration issues, in the local, regional and central governments (see section on the labour market, in relation to the situation of Romanian migrants). [...] According to the legal expert working in the association ACOBE, in Madrid, it is conceived as a way to facilitate access to the labour market and to increase the income of the family, so they do not depend only on the sponsor.