Advocacy Report: Advocacy Work on Family Migration Policies in Spain

GIL ARAUJO, SANDRA; MONTAÑES, VIRGINIA

NODE Advocacy Report

BMWF/ICMPD

Lugar: Viena; Año: 2009; p. 1 - 22

The research project analysed family migration policies in nine European countries from two angles. First, the project analysed policies and policy-making in regard to family related migration in a “top-down” perspective through the analysis of legislation, public debates, as well as through expert interviews. Secondly, the project analyses family migration policies from a “bottom-up” perspective, by investigating the impact of conditions and restrictions on migrants and their families and the responses and strategies migrants adopt to cope with these and to organise their family lives.The following report and the information included in the list of organisations has been elaborated through contacts and interviews to key informants and experts on advocacy and migration issues; migrants, human rights and women's associations; and the staff of NGOs working on migration issues. Due to budget restrictions, the interviews have been conducted by phone. Annex I gives an overview of the people contacted during the field work. Other sources of information have been the Internet – through a search of programmes, campaigns and services provided by the different NGOs and associations working on migration issues, and former researches implemented by Sandra Gil on the social policies in the Spanish context.