Spanish Immigration Policies and Legislative Evolution in that Field as a New Exceptional Framework

While laws of immigration in Spain have intended officially to guarantee the rights and liberties of the immigrants and to provide their social integration, as their titles always assure, they have served, in practice, for just the opposite, for the legal and social construction of irregular immigrant to whom the recognition of rights is notably shrinked and who is forced to live in social marginalization, turned into a non-person. That was the case of the first Spanish immigration law, the Organic Law 7/1985 on rights and liberties of the foreigners in Spain, wich was in force until February 1st 2000 and introduced the legal figure of irregular immigrant and also the possibility of his or her detention and internment in a special center to be deported. Although the Organic Law 4/2000 removed the legal posibility of expulsion as an administravie sanction, the succesive legal reforms after the victory of the conservatives in general election of March 2000 reintroduced again that posibility and also the centers of internment for foreigners

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Spanish Immigration Policies and Legislative Evolution in that Field as a New Exceptional Framework