Loading ...Romanians continue to make up the largest foreign community in the Madrid Community, with 205,784 people recorded as of January 1, 2009 and 18.56 percent of the foreigners there, up 5.17 percent from the year before, but the figures reveal a rather slowing down in the pace of their coming to Spain, according to a recent study about foreigners registered with the mayoralties of the Madrid Community released on Tuesday by the adviser to the local Government on immigration affairs Javier Fernandez Lasquetty.
The largest foreign community of the Madrid Community, the Romanian one, recorded a rise in annual terms, but, compared with their arrivals in October 2008 – January 2009 a slow down, even a stagnation becomes clear, since only something slightly over 10,000 Romanians came here in this interval, said Fernandez-Lasquetty, mentioning in the study's overview that the main reason for the slow down in arrivals of all immigrants could be ascribed to the economic crisis.
He added that some foreigners won the Spanish nationality and thus were no longer taken down in the census as foreigners. The study indicates that the percentage of Romanian and Bulgarian nationals among the foreigners coming from Europe to the Madrid Community continues to be the highest, at 21.52 percent, although the largest share of immigrants are from South America. Romanians are living everywhere in the Madrid Community, but most of them have settled in the eastern, southeastern and northern parts.
In Madrid City, the administrative centre of the Madrid Community, most of the Romanians are on the northern, eastern and southern sides. The Romanian population in the Madrid Community is followed in size by the Ecuadorian population (12.44 percent); the Moroccan (8.15 percent); the Colombian (6.67 percent) and the Peruvian population (5.82 percent). Foreigners are making up 17.12 percent of the inhabitants of the Madrid Community, or 1,100,000 in figures.
The study was based on the number of foreigners registered with the mayoralties of the 179 villages, towns and cities of the Madrid Community as of January 1, 2009, and its main conclusion is the overall pace of foreigners' arrival in Spain slowed down in the last quarter of 2008.
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