• Source: Romanians in Spain

Romanians form the second largest group of foreigners in Spain, after Moroccans. As of 2023, there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain. Most of the immigration took place given economic reasons. The linguistic similarities between Romanian and Spanish, as well as Romanians' Latin identity, are also a reason for the country's attractiveness to Romanians.




Background


After the December, 1989 Romanian Revolution, emigration was liberalized, but for the next few years, emigration to Spain was modest. It started to increase slowly during the late 1990s, and exploded after 2002. Emigration was further facilitated by the entry of Romania in the EU in 2007. By 2011, it reached a peak of nearly 900,000 people, after which the Romanian population has been steadily decreasing as a result of emigration from Spain since 2012 due to the economic problems and unemployment in the country, falling to 623,097 by 2022. Because of this, the diaspora in Italy, which has continued to increase, is now considerably larger than that in Spain.




Population



Romanian diaspora in Spain is today the second Romanian diaspora in the EU, after that of Italy. Romanians in Spain have settled especially in the provinces of Madrid, Castellón, Valencia, Zaragoza and Barcelona.




Notable individuals



Alexandru Buligan (born 1960), handball player and coach
Mihaela Ciobanu (born 1973), handball player
Cosmin Contra (born 1975), footballer and coach
Gheorghe Craioveanu (born 1968), footballer
Alexandru Dedu (born 1971), handball player
Constantin Gâlcă (born 1972), footballer and coach
Cristian Ganea (born 1992), footballer
Adrian Ilie (born 1974), footballer
Valeriu Lazarov (1935–2009), television producer, director of Spanish channel Telecinco
Alina Nastase (born 1990), actress, model and director
Gheorghe Popescu (born 1967), footballer
Roxana Popa (born 1997), artistic gymnast
Virgil Popa (born 1975), conductor
Amelia Tiganus (born 1984), writer and abolitionist activist
Marcela Topor (born 1976), journalist




See also



Romania–Spain relations
Romance-speaking Europe
Romanian diaspora
Immigration to Spain




References






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"Población extranjera por sexo, país de nacionalidad y edad (hasta 85 y más).", Avance del Padrón a 1 de enero de 2009. Datos provisionales, Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2009, archived from the original on 14 December 2009, retrieved 13 June 2009
"Población extranjera por sexo, país de nacionalidad y edad (hasta 85 y más).", Revisión del Padrón municipal 2008. Datos a nivel nacional, comunidad autónoma y provincia., Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2008, retrieved 13 June 2009
"Población extranjera por sexo, país de nacionalidad y edad (hasta 85 y más).", Revisión del Padrón municipal 2007. Datos a nivel nacional, comunidad autónoma y provincia., Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2008, retrieved 13 June 2009

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