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Hundreds of activists staged today a Via Crucis to symbolize the struggle of immigrants and to protest against laws which could criminalize them in Miami, Florida. Using banners, showing slogans like “We do not want an Arizona law here in Florida” and images of the...

Over 185,050 Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain are without work, while some 47,000 of them collect their unemployment check. It is unknown how the 138,000 remaining Ecuadorians survive. The statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security informed that the Ecuadorians in...

Over a hundred Ecuadorians attended the Senami branch in Madrid to learn about the contents of the questions in the referendum and the popular consult of May 7. Through a videoconference the Ecuadorians residing in New York, London, Milan, Caracas, and Quito expressed their...

Ecuadorian Embassy in Japan is monitoring the Ecuadorians that can still be found outside the areas of risk. Javier Ponce Leiva, Ambassador of Ecuador in Japan, confirmed that the compatriots, who were located on a nuclear hazard zone, are now out of danger and they are gathered...

The Ecuadorian government recently informed that it has communicated with 102 of the 120 Ecuadorian residents that live in Japan. According to the newspaper El Ciudadano, the 102 Ecuadorians in Japan are well and safe. Meanwhile the Ambassador of Ecuador in Japan, Javier Ponce...

Italy is another country that has added to the list of west European countries that try to contain the growth of their immigrant population by setting a language requisite to earn residency or work permits, and citizenship. Such requirements were approved last year with the...

The main opposition party in Spain, Partido Popular (PP), wants to propose for the 2012 General Elections, an integration contract for migrant workers, as well as proposed in 2008. The president of the PP, Mariano Rajoy, seeks the integration of immigrants, making it clear that...

The number of foreigners without jobs in Spain increased to 1,095,300 people in 2010, according to the report of Asociacion de Grandes Empresas de Trabajo Temporal (AGETT). The foreigners in Spain represent the 11% of the total population, many of them have suffered the increase...

Yesterday the Official State Bulletin (BOE) published the social security agreement signed between Spain and Ecuador, which allow Ecuadorian workers in Spanish territory to enjoy the same benefits as national affiliates. The agreement will also benefit Spanish people who are...

According to the project of regulation Immigration Law, the Spanish government would regularize undocumented foreigners whose children were born in Spain.  This new bill called immigrant family detention might grant resident permits to the parents of the minor as long as the...