Territorial Analysis of Migration in Spain: a territorial approachYolanda Sanz Taus

Du 2 octobre 2026 au 2 octobre 2026

De 12h30 à 13h30, en salle du Conseil (1er étage de la faculté de droit, économie et gestion).
Accessible en distanciel sur l'équipe Teams "Séminaires Granem" (réservé aux membres).

Yolanda Sanz Taus est doctorante à l'Université de Jaume I (Espagne).

Sa thèse de doctorat porte sur les liens entre migration, politiques publiques et développement territorial, en s'intéressant plus particulièrement à la manière dont les politiques d'intégration influencent la cohésion sociale et les parcours professionnels des migrants. Elle est accueillie au Granem par Olivier Mouate.

Titre :

Territorial Analysis of Migration in Spain: a territorial approach

Abstract : 

It is an enormous figure, one that not only transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals but also profoundly reshaped the country’s economy.

However, this immediately raises a major question: how can such a massive impact be measured accurately in an economy that was already expanding rapidly at the time?

In the seminar, we will examine how different integration processes, particularly administrative regularisation influence territorial dynamics.

My doctoral research focuses on the analysis of migration in Spain from a territorial perspective, with special attention to integration processes and migration-related public policies. At this stage of the PhD, I am developing the analytical framework and preparing the data structure that will support the empirical chapters.

Within this framework, the seminar will focus on the evaluation of the 2005 extraordinary regularisation process. This policy is interpreted as an institutional intervention with heterogeneous territorial intensity. Although the regularisation was implemented at national level, its effective incidence varied across provinces according to the relative number of people regularised in each territory. This territorial variation provides the basis for a difference-in-differences approach aimed at analysing whether provinces more exposed to the regularisation process experienced different economic and labour market dynamics after 2005 compared
with less exposed provinces.

577,923.
this is the exact number of favourable decisions granted during Spain’s extraordinary regularisation of immigrants in 2005.