‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain
‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain The government expected half a million people to apply. Madrid, Spain – Badr...
Key points
- ‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain The government expected half a million people to apply.
- Madrid, Spain – Badr Tmairi, 22, from Morocco, has spent six years living in Spain without legal status.
- Without documents, finding work and decent housing in Spain is difficult.
- Living without legal status, Espinola said, condemns people to social exclusion, as it has for Tmairi.
What happened
‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain The government expected half a million people to apply. Madrid, Spain – Badr Tmairi, 22, from Morocco, has spent six years living in Spain without legal status. Without documents, finding work and decent housing in Spain is difficult. Living without legal status, Espinola said, condemns people to social exclusion, as it has for Tmairi. ‘All I want is to work’ Rocio Neciosupe, 54, is a Peruvian migrant who has spent two years without legal status in Spain. To work without fear and with rights, so that if I fall and I’m sick, I don’t have to go to work that day and can still get paid, like anyone else,” she said.