TIE cards, Catalan lessons and deportations: Catalonia's new immigration powers

TIE cards, Catalan lessons and deportations: Catalonia's new immigration powers

A deal between Spain's government and Catalan separatists will likely see new immigration powers granted to the northern region, from making residency conditional on learning Catalan to overseeing the region's airports with their own police force.

The agreement for the transfer of competences on immigration pursues a greater demand with the command of the Catalan language to access the residence permit

Roger Coma, Catalan actor, confessed at Catalunya Radio: «I would like to be in Korea to speak more Catalan than here. I would always go to the Catalan house in Korea and I would feel more Catalan than here. It is quite conflictive to be Catalan in Catalonia. There I could be Catalan without shame and without colonizers». It does not specify whether he would like to be in North or South Korea; perhaps he would prefer the one in the North, becaus…

The influence of Spanish on Catalan is greater than the reverse in bilingual speakers and varies according to age. Thus, the Catalan of these children receives more influences from Spanish than that used by adults, according to the BIBA research project of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). The research has studied the extent to which Catalan and Spanish influence each other when bilingual p…

Catalan pro-independence party wants immigrants to learn Catalan to get residency - Spain in English

A Catalan pro-independence party said on Wednesday that it intends to require foreigners to demonstrate proficiency in Catalan as a condition for obtaining residency in the northeastern Spanish region. The comments follow the announcement by the pro-independence party Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) that it had reached an agreement with Spain’s ruling socialists (PSOE) to transfer control of migration policies to the Catalan government. The agreemen…

The post-convergents base the requirement on an "ambitious" future law in Parliament, on which they have already begun working