Reasons of the arrival of the immigrants of Spain

The INE has just published a quite interesting information about the immigrants in Spain obtained from the Survey of Active Population. It is a question of the correspondent to the module "situation of the immigrants and of his children as regards the labor market", with information of 2008. Throw a glance, it has enough that to see.
What more has attracted attention of me has been the question on the principal reason for which the interviewees (persons from 16 to 74 years) have come to Spain. Regrouping groups of nationalities and reasons (since some of them are very little numerous), the boss of principal reasons of the foreigners, for sexes and nationality, it is the one that two following graphs show.
Let's see first the case of the males (click in the graph to extend it).

Since they can observe (if they extend the graph), the most adduced principal reason, independently of the nationality (of the group of nationalities, rather) it is coming to work, without having I use previously, a little that 54 % of the foreigners mentions. There are relatively small those who say to have come to work counting previously with an employment in Spain (or his company has moved them), 13 %. What means that, of which they come to work, close to 80 % it came without contract of employment and then, probably, it found work. Not at all that we surprise.

Yes it attracts attention that the reason of coming to work without previous employment in Spain is mentioned by more males of the "rest of the world" (69 %). In fact, immense most of them are Moroccan and, less, sub-Saharan, although there will be some Asians. Logically, they are those who less mention the reasons, let's say, of familiar regrouping (11 %, opposite to 19 % of the whole of foreign males of the ages on that we comment).
Let's see now the case of the women (again, click to extend).

The first thing that hits in the eye if we compare the second graph with the first one is that the women mention less the reasons tied of the search of work (43 vs 66 % for the males) and more those of familiar regrouping or family formation (41 vs 19 % for the males). Nothing that does not also surprise although the differences are not abysmal.

Only they it are, relatively, for a nationalities group, those of the "rest of the world" (remember, especially, Moroccan, sub-Saharan and some Asians). There are small the women who come for work (28 %) and many those who come for familiar reasons (64 %). Again, nothing that we were not suspecting, but the empirical assertion always comes well :-)