Migration

• The ending of autarky and opening of Spain's border encouraged a free market of labour. This allowed more Spaniards to work abroad and send money back to their families in Spain.
• 1959 many Spanish workers emigrated to take higher-paying jobs in countries like Germany.

  1973 - 500,000 Spaniards worked in Germany

  1973 - 250,000 in France
• Gov made agreements with Latin American countries, which allowed Spanish workers to live and work in South America.

  Peru - 1964

  Argentina - 1966

  Brazil - 1969
• Emigration reduced levels of unemployment
• Although large numbers of Spaniards left the country to find work, most returned

  1980 - fewer than 20,000 Spaniards left Spain for good
• Ending autarky allowed migrants to enter Spain.

  1960's - well-off Peruvians arrived to study at Spanish Universities. They paid tuition fees, rented accommodation and bought local goods and in doing so boosted the Spanish economy