Abstract
This article extends the existing literature on the internal migration patterns of the foreign-born in Spain. We analyze the spatial distribution of immigrants and their patterns of mobility at different levels. Socio-demographic characteristics of immigrants and characteristics of places of origin and destination are considered. We also examine repeat migration, duration of residence in each destination, as well as return migration within Spain. To this end, we make use of a new micro database corresponding to the National Immigrant Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes, ENI-2007).
Highlights
Este artículo contribuye a la literatura sobre la migración interna de los inmigrantes nacidos fuera de España
A unique aspect of the National Immigrant Survey is that it enables us to assess the duration of each stay in each destination
The study of the spatial distribution of immigrants and of their internal movement is important for the design of economic, social and demographic policy, as well as for a better understanding of the basic migratory process
Summary
Inmigración en España, Movilidad interna de los inmigrantes, Análisis descriptivo, Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes (ENI-2007). C) The debate regarding the causes of internal migration in Spain remains open, in the sense that the importance of migration networks or economic factors, practically the only causes analyzed so far, may vary according to the study used.4 In this sense, the recent paper by Reher and Silvestre (2009), based on the National Immigrant Survey 2007 (ENI) introduces some variations with respect to the studies mentioned earlier. These basic characteristics of immigrants, should be contextualized in terms of other factors that can affect the decision to move (Reher y Silvestre 2009) In this way, when analyzing the propensity to move internally within multivariate models, controlling for the effects of a series of variables (in order to test for the importance of any given theory), it can be seen that, for example, men are more likely to move than women (especially more than once). It is important to keep in mind that when using multivariate models, the highest levels
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