La situación residencial de la población inmigrante en Andalucía

Abstract

In recent years, a variety of observers have denounced the housing conditions of Andalusia's growing immigrant population as largely miserable. In addition to the overcrowding in and the poor quality of housing available to immigrants, special emphasis has been placed on the confinement to extra-urban spaces in Andalusia's thriving areas of intensive agriculture, specifically in Almería province. Based on survey data, this article provides a far more reliable measurement of these three phenomena (overcrowding, poor quality housing and spacial exclusion) than previously available, including social profiles of the people affected by these deficiencies. Our results point to the existence of sizable and serious problems with housing conditions specifically in this population. However, differently from previous studies, our data show that these particular problems affect a minority only of Andalusia's immigrants.