Foreign law and immigration at Spain (1985-2005). Analysis of the foreign workers normalization process

Abstract

This investigation note shows the historical evolution’s main points of the Spanish legislation with regard to the alien status. The effects of this legal framework to the different spheres of the immigrant community (estate, laboural, familiar and relational) are analysed since the act of 1985 to the current moment. With this analysis it is perceived the way how a new kind of inequality is created and structured: the ethnic inequality. Specifically on this matter, the main effects and limitations of the new rules implementation and the extraordinary regularization carried out between February and May of the year 2005 are described and analysed.