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Roehampton Conference Abstracts 7. Eugenia Markova (University of Sussex, UK): Eugenia Markova is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Migration Studies. She has published several papers on international migration, the economics of legal/illegal migration, economies in transition, and regional development. The presentation will report the findings of a recent study on the Bulgarian migration in Spain, in the Madrid area, surveying 119 Bulgarian illegal and legalized immigrants. The purpose of the study was to examine the labour market performance of the illegal Bulgarian immigrants together with any changes in the social and economic status of those illegal Bulgarians that managed to obtain legal status under the 2000 and 2001 amnesty programs of the Spanish government or through individual application by employers. Particularly, the questionnaire was designed in such a way as to capture those changes in migrant status that closely affect the sending country such as changes in labour market behaviour and job characteristics (affecting e.g. levels of income and amount of it remitted to Bulgaria/saved in Spain), changes in the family structure (related e.g. to relatives abroad and their intentions to immigrate), and intentions for repatriation. The interviews were fully in the Bulgarian language and the survey instrument was available in this language. Random sampling was not considered a reasonable and even plausible solution for approaching the people and obtaining any reliable information from them. Instead, the purposive method of sampling was applied. The southern regions of Madrid – Parla and Getafe- with the highest concentrations of Bulgarian migrants were surveyed. The sample consisted of 119 Bulgarian immigrants over the age of 18, who had worked in Spain for at least two weeks during their most recent stay.
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