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"Boat people crisis?

By LUCAS MARTÍN DE LA CAL for GEA PHOTOWORDS


Little Happiness would not wait to get ashore. On December 13, Judith, a 28 year old Nigerian woman, was brought to the world during the journey by boat, which was traveling with 37 other occupants in the vicinity of the Island of Alborán. When the boat was intercepted by members of the Maritime Service of the Guardia Civil and Salvage, the baby was held by his father with the umbilical cord hanging. The woman, first pregnancy, she went into labor in the small boat, and two of her classmates brought to makeshift midwives.
The most significant of this issue, is that along with Judith, traveled seven other pregnant immigrants.
When the crisis and we had almost forgotten the images of boats playing various ports at the same time, the story of Happiness reminds us again that Africa always exists and there is no crisis.
However, while the canoes arrived from the English coast have declined considerably this past year, many immigrants continue to risk their lives embarking on boats, leaving everything they knew, looking for something better for themselves and for those left behind.
In a small boat and a flat bottom as is a boat, each "passenger" has a great story to tell. Some of them have a happy ending, many others are repatriated with their characters or simply disappear before reaching land.


END OF CYCLE
The entry of immigrants to Spain and joining the labor market fell sharply in 2009 because, officially, to the crisis and has continued to decline during this 2010. Immigrants who have arrived by boat to the English coast have been reduced by 9.11% so far this year, as reported by the Ministry of Interior. From January to July, 7165 people came to our shores, 718 less than the same period last year.
The decline has been most notable among sub-Saharan Africans who arrived in the Canary Islands aboard boats. Of the 5,680 that were counted in 2007 has passed 4,393 this year, according to the Government Commission on the islands.
In the case of Ceuta and Melilla, the reduction is even greater and reaches 25%. The reason is highlighted by the Ministry of Interior is that the policing of the Straits has become more effective.

The Government considers that it has completed the "cycle" of the "prodigious decade" for foreigners and start over with fewer arrivals. Our country has a population of 46 million (up from 40 million at the beginning of the century), 12% of them foreigners, who have come mostly in the last 15 years.
Spain is the state of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has suffered the biggest drop in the influx of immigrants following the economic crisis, reports the organization in its annual report "Immigration 2010." In the same ensures that "the conditions of immigrants have deteriorated significantly, while the recession deepened." Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, said the reduction in the number of foreign workers will continue in 2011. "Immigrants are part of the solution not the problem. Beyond the effects of the crisis, immigration will continue to play a vital role in OECD economies, due to the need for more workers to maintain growth and prosperity "

. INCREASE IN MELILLA


The Southern Border (Ceuta and Melilla), the perception is different however. In recent years, thanks to the tightening of border control by the Moroccan authorities and, above all, to shield the border from the English side, the flow of immigrants had been reduced to a minimum, that is, two or three posts daily. Most of them occurred in internal vehicles or through bribery. However, since the month of July onwards the increase in sub-Saharan arrived in Melilla, for example, has increased tenfold. In fact, the Immigration Detention Centre (CETI) of the Autonomous City, is once again full, having been deprived of Asian immigrants who have settled in recent years. "Have you noticed a lot of poor current relationship Morocco Spain. The neighboring country is using immigration as a weapon to assert its territorial claims on the Sahara, Ceuta and Melilla. Is always the same: Once the diplomatic conflict, re-open the gateway to Europe through its share of the fence or promoting the boats, "said John Palazón, Prodein president, organization on behalf of immigrants. According Palazón, the crisis has not affected much as they say the flow of immigrants to Europe "Because Africa is always in crisis, and they will always be rich. What are the routes are changing. Are moving to eastern Europe (Greece, Turkey and Italy), where there has been no such decline. It is a matter of doors and keys, not just economically. "

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Lucas Martín Cal journalism student internship at GEA PHOTOWORDS
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Domezain, as a photographer began after the war in the Balkans in 1996. His work is published in national and international press. He is the author of several books and exhibitions of various themes and has worked with GEA PHOTOWORDS on other occasions.