ISSUE NO. 1433
20 - 26 DECEMBER 2012
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5m plus! THE number of expatriates living in Spain swelled 234 per cent from 2001 to last year.
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Expats swell population
And during that time, Spain’s overall population figure, including nationals and expatriates, has
increased 14.6 per cent to 46,815,916, almost six million more than in 2001. In the latest census, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) took a sample of 11 per cent of the population, visiting one million homes and quizzing 5.4 million people. Ten years ago, there were 1,572,013 foreign residents. Now there are 5,252,473, a rise of 234 TOWN IN NEED: Protesters block one entrance to Rojales in fight for new school. per cent. In 2001, there were 57,533 Romanians in Spain and now there are 798,104, which is 1,287 AROUND 200 parents, to a halt in a series of patio where children play. per cent more, making students, politicians and protests. Protesters gathered at them the most numerous residents brought Rojales They were campaigning different points, cutting group of foreigners. against the state of the off entrances to Rojales, Meanwhile, the Parainfant and primary school before meeting outside guayan population has in the town which has the town hall. risen 6,836 per cent to been described as a ‘pit of The three main political 121,721. terror’. parties in Rojales were In regions including the The demonstration was represented, headed by Balearic Islands, Murcia, organised by AMPA, the Mayor Antonio Perez Valencia and Cataluña, parents association of the (PSOE). They continue to the number of foreign Colegio Público Príncipe support calls for a new residents has risen so de España, who want the school and question why much that it now Education Department to the funding has not been represents more than 15 fulfil its promises and forthcoming from the per cent of the total Education Department. build a new school. population. Parent Rachel King calls In a state of disrepair The town with the most for more than a decade, the school a ‘pit of terror’ foreigners is Rojales, in the renewed protests and joined a group who Alicante, where fewer come after a 20-kilo piece travelled to Valencia last than three in every 10 is of concrete fell off the December to lobby the Spanish. At the opposite building, landing on the government. end of the scale, in Ubrique, Cadiz Province, foreign residents represent less than 1 per cent of the population. The youngest foreign residents in Spain are the Africans and Asians, compared to the European residents who are much older.
200 join ‘Pit of Terror’ protest
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