Normativa de la Unión Europea y legislación española sobre inmigración y extranjería. Su aplicación en la Comunidad Autónoma Canaria

Abstract

In this article, we show a retrospective vision of the Spanish State immigration policy\nduring the first decade of the XXI century, paying particular attention to the\nparticipation in those actions of the Canary Islands.\nWe are interested in verifying the practical fulfilment of the regulations coming\nfrom the European Union and the Spanish State more than in a mere identification\nof the legal frame. These regulations are put forward to get the immigrants to come\nto terms with the political identity, articulated according to constitutional values of\nthe welcoming society.\nActually, full adaptability of the immigrants to the Spanish society and their acceptation of the approved patterns by the Constitution require a previous articulation\nof an integrating model as a reference for all citizens. This is still a pending task,\nalthough some Autonomous Communities have made some progress in designing\nsome instructions that could put on track this process.\nA change regarding the analysis of the situation is certainly necessary in such a way\nthat what appears today as Alien Status could be restructured as Immigration Laws\nin so that the fundamental concern of the legal system would stop being only a regulation\nand control of the alien status and the adequate regulation of the migratory\nprocess as a whole would become favored.