Latin America's migration to Spain

🌎 ➡️ 🇪🇸 Would you trade your Latin American passport for a Spanish one? Spain is becoming LatAm's new promised land, and colonial history is coming full circle as Latin Americans flood into their former colonizer's country. Here's the story ↓

People in the US mainland may not get to catch Bad Bunny on his world tour due to immigration concerns, but do you know which country won’t be missing out?

Try Spain, which is getting an impressive 12 shows spread out across Barcelona and Madrid next May and June. Ignoring the multi-month 31-show Puerto Rican residency Bad Bunny just wrapped up last weekend, Spain is by far the destination receiving the most love from the world’s biggest Hispanic superstar.

And it’s little surprise, really, especially given that Spain has become one of the largest destinations for emigrating Latin Americans. Besides the local Spaniards and visiting tourists, Bad Bunny knows he’ll have no trouble filling up stadiums for twelve nights with just the Latinos in the country.

So where exactly are these stadium-filling crowds coming from, and why does Honduras outpace Argentina?

Spain, along with other southern European countries like Italy and Portugal, has done a lot in recent years to help attract Latin Americans. Through a number of migration schemes involving family ancestry, historical roots, and even Sephardi Judaism, the country has become an attractive citizenship option for thousands across Central and South America.

On Spain’s end, the motivation is crystal clear. The Iberian country’s fertility rate is just 1.12 births per woman, or well below the replacement rate, meaning that without immigration it faces the same demographic collapse as other developed countries like Italy or South Korea.

Latinos, including mostly Hispanics but also a few thousand Brazilians who have chosen Barça over Lisbon, also provide an immigrant population that tends to be younger, have the same religion and language, and faces less culture clash than counterparts from North Africa or South Asia.

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