Juan Iglesias
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Iglesias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Iglesias |
| SIGNATURE | IGLESIAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Pontificia Comillas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8333-7834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is climate change threatening the habitat distribution of the critically endangered tree species Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata in Ecuador?
Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata (Meliaceae) are CITES-listed tropical timber species in Ecuador due to their high commercial value and extensive international trade. Thus, their populations have declined substantially as a consequence of selective logging and climate change. In this context, assessing their potential distribution under future climatic scenarios is essential for developing effective conservation and management strategies…
Autocratic Tools in Spanish Democratic Migration Governance. A Critical Analysis of the Use of Royal Decree-Laws
Autocratic policy tools are often associated with democratic backsliding and the erosion of checks and balances. Yet their use is not confined to illiberal regimes. This article examines whether, and in what sense, royal decree-laws in Spain can be understood as autocratic policy tools within a consolidated democracy. Although constitutionally designed for situations of extraordinary and urgent necessity, royal decree-laws temporarily concentrate…
The impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the Spanish development model, poverty and inequality
This article examines the changes in the Spanish socio-economic model following the 2008 Great Recession, using national and European data. It highlights three major transformations: (a) the deepening of a low-productivity accumulation model, (b) a less generous welfare state, particularly contributory policies like unemployment insurance, and (c) the deterioration of the family as a support mechanism. These shifts have led to a weakening of the …
Factores que explican la coexistencia tranquila entre inmigrantes y nativos en barrios populares españoles. Los casos de Arangoiti (Bilbao) y Torre-Pacheco (Murcia)
A pesar del avance del precariado, el crecimiento de la inmigración y la presencia de un arraigado prejuicio grupal hacia esta, la coexistencia tranquila y las actitudes sosegadas siguen siendo las notas dominantes en los entornos populares españoles, sin que se hayan producido, en líneas generales, conflictos sociales o políticos significativos de carácter étnico. Esta singularidad española es analizada mediante una extensa investigación cualita…
A segregated rootedness: The integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes
Welcome Refugees? The Asylum System in Spain
The Spanish asylum system and refugee reception program demonstrate persistent problems involving initial access to asylum and the processing of applications; access to assistance from the reception system; and the process of integration of asylum seekers, which is characterized by social segregation. This article analyzes these issues and seeks to explain them by looking beyond the immediate circumstances of the substantial increase in applicati…
Ethnic closure and immigrant residential segregation in Spanish working-class neighbourhoods
Given the difficulties of integration of the immigrant population and the demographic importance that this population is set to have in European society, this research uses an initial territorial approach and a subsequent qualitative analysis to study the internal residential dynamics of immigrants in five Spanish working-class neighbourhoods with a significant presence of foreign-born people. The analysis focuses on the role that ethnic prejudic…
Beyond the asylum‐applications growth . The limits of the Spanish refugee reception program
Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross‐sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum applications during the so‐called European refugee crisis in 2015. This paper affirms that, although…
Análisis del Proceso de Integración Relacional de los Inmigrantes en España: El Factor Étnico
En esta investigación se analizará el papel que tienen las redes sociales en el proceso de integración relacional de la población inmigrante en España. En concreto, se estudiará como el factor étnico de la red condiciona su proceso de incorporación a los grupos primarios de la sociedad de acogida. Para llevar esto a cabo se desarrolla un indicador que nos permite conocer la concentración étnica de la red, diferenciando entre redes étnicas, mixtas…
To the South, Always to the South”. Factors Shaping Refugee’s Socio-Economic Integration in Spain
This article, based on qualitative research, focuses on socioeconomic integration trajectories of the refugee population in Spain. In the period between 2014 and 2020, refugees’ arrivals in Spain have continuously increased. Despite protection provided by the Spanish Reception System, refugees emulate the same precarious integration outcomes as refugees in other developed countries, such as unemployment, underemployment, poor and unstable housing…
Birds of passage? La integración social de la población refugiada en España
The present article analyzes the conditions of social integration of the refugee population in Spain during the period 2012-2016, based on qualitative research data. For that purpose, the authors analyze the current situation of the issue in Europe and particularly in Spain, collects the main data on the sociodemographic profile of the refugees, and finally, exposes the results obtained in the research. During their first five years of incorporat…
El impacto de la crisis sobre la inmigración ecuatoriana en España
El objetivo del artículo es medir el impacto de la crisis económica sobre el colectivo de origen ecuatoriano residente en España; el estudio se basa en una encuesta realizada a dicha población, utilizando técnicas estadísticas de análisis multivariable, se elabora un índice sintético, que segmenta a la población ecuatoriana en función de cómo ha sido afectada por la recesión. El grupo más perjudicado se caracteriza por un empeoramiento en los ind…
Stay or Go? Ecuadorian Immigrants in Spain in Times of Crisis
This article studies how the economic crisis affects Ecuadorian immigrants' decisions on staying in Spain or returning to their home country. Before the crisis, Ecuadorians were one of the most significant migrant groups in Spain in terms of volume and degree of settlement. The crisis has destabilised their situation and modified their migratory projects in different ways. This article presents the three main choices facing Ecuadorian immigrants …
"En la horma de otros zapatos". Los trabajadores inmigrantes y el enfoque de la nueva precariedad étnica
The article deals with the issue of the approach of the new ethnic precariousness in developed countries, using as example the case study on Ecuadorians workers in the metropolitan area of Madrid. The analysis fans out in three theoretical sections. First, it deals with the question of the analysis and the portrait of the precariousness life and work conditions of the migrants in development economies and the relations between both, using as exam…
Brief group therapy to facilitate utilization of mental health services by Spanish-speaking patients
Barriers of culture and language have tended to keep poor Spanish-speaking people from using community mental health center treatment facilities. This paper describes a program of brief group therapy, conducted in Spanish by a bilingual social work assistant, that helped patients with their presenting problems and helped prepare them to accept referral to the longer term treatment facilities of the center
Birds of passage? La integración social de la población refugiada en España
The present article analyzes the conditions of social integration of the refugee population in Spain during the period 2012-2016, based on qualitative research data. For that purpose, the authors analyze the current situation of the issue in Europe and particularly in Spain, collects the main data on the sociodemographic profile of the refugees, and finally, exposes the results obtained in the research. During their first five years of incorporat…
Beyond the asylum‐applications growth . The limits of the Spanish refugee reception program
Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross‐sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum applications during the so‐called European refugee crisis in 2015. This paper affirms that, although…
"En la horma de otros zapatos". Los trabajadores inmigrantes y el enfoque de la nueva precariedad étnica
The article deals with the issue of the approach of the new ethnic precariousness in developed countries, using as example the case study on Ecuadorians workers in the metropolitan area of Madrid. The analysis fans out in three theoretical sections. First, it deals with the question of the analysis and the portrait of the precariousness life and work conditions of the migrants in development economies and the relations between both, using as exam…
To the South, Always to the South”. Factors Shaping Refugee’s Socio-Economic Integration in Spain
This article, based on qualitative research, focuses on socioeconomic integration trajectories of the refugee population in Spain. In the period between 2014 and 2020, refugees’ arrivals in Spain have continuously increased. Despite protection provided by the Spanish Reception System, refugees emulate the same precarious integration outcomes as refugees in other developed countries, such as unemployment, underemployment, poor and unstable housing…
Brief group therapy to facilitate utilization of mental health services by Spanish-speaking patients
Barriers of culture and language have tended to keep poor Spanish-speaking people from using community mental health center treatment facilities. This paper describes a program of brief group therapy, conducted in Spanish by a bilingual social work assistant, that helped patients with their presenting problems and helped prepare them to accept referral to the longer term treatment facilities of the center
"En la horma de otros zapatos". Los trabajadores inmigrantes y el enfoque de la nueva precariedad étnica
The article deals with the issue of the approach of the new ethnic precariousness in developed countries, using as example the case study on Ecuadorians workers in the metropolitan area of Madrid. The analysis fans out in three theoretical sections. First, it deals with the question of the analysis and the portrait of the precariousness life and work conditions of the migrants in development economies and the relations between both, using as exam…
El impacto de la crisis sobre la inmigración ecuatoriana en España
El objetivo del artículo es medir el impacto de la crisis económica sobre el colectivo de origen ecuatoriano residente en España; el estudio se basa en una encuesta realizada a dicha población, utilizando técnicas estadísticas de análisis multivariable, se elabora un índice sintético, que segmenta a la población ecuatoriana en función de cómo ha sido afectada por la recesión. El grupo más perjudicado se caracteriza por un empeoramiento en los ind…
Stay or Go? Ecuadorian Immigrants in Spain in Times of Crisis
This article studies how the economic crisis affects Ecuadorian immigrants' decisions on staying in Spain or returning to their home country. Before the crisis, Ecuadorians were one of the most significant migrant groups in Spain in terms of volume and degree of settlement. The crisis has destabilised their situation and modified their migratory projects in different ways. This article presents the three main choices facing Ecuadorian immigrants …
Birds of passage? La integración social de la población refugiada en España
The present article analyzes the conditions of social integration of the refugee population in Spain during the period 2012-2016, based on qualitative research data. For that purpose, the authors analyze the current situation of the issue in Europe and particularly in Spain, collects the main data on the sociodemographic profile of the refugees, and finally, exposes the results obtained in the research. During their first five years of incorporat…
To the South, Always to the South”. Factors Shaping Refugee’s Socio-Economic Integration in Spain
This article, based on qualitative research, focuses on socioeconomic integration trajectories of the refugee population in Spain. In the period between 2014 and 2020, refugees’ arrivals in Spain have continuously increased. Despite protection provided by the Spanish Reception System, refugees emulate the same precarious integration outcomes as refugees in other developed countries, such as unemployment, underemployment, poor and unstable housing…
Análisis del Proceso de Integración Relacional de los Inmigrantes en España: El Factor Étnico
En esta investigación se analizará el papel que tienen las redes sociales en el proceso de integración relacional de la población inmigrante en España. En concreto, se estudiará como el factor étnico de la red condiciona su proceso de incorporación a los grupos primarios de la sociedad de acogida. Para llevar esto a cabo se desarrolla un indicador que nos permite conocer la concentración étnica de la red, diferenciando entre redes étnicas, mixtas…
Ethnic closure and immigrant residential segregation in Spanish working-class neighbourhoods
Given the difficulties of integration of the immigrant population and the demographic importance that this population is set to have in European society, this research uses an initial territorial approach and a subsequent qualitative analysis to study the internal residential dynamics of immigrants in five Spanish working-class neighbourhoods with a significant presence of foreign-born people. The analysis focuses on the role that ethnic prejudic…
Beyond the asylum‐applications growth . The limits of the Spanish refugee reception program
Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross‐sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum applications during the so‐called European refugee crisis in 2015. This paper affirms that, although…
Factores que explican la coexistencia tranquila entre inmigrantes y nativos en barrios populares españoles. Los casos de Arangoiti (Bilbao) y Torre-Pacheco (Murcia)
A pesar del avance del precariado, el crecimiento de la inmigración y la presencia de un arraigado prejuicio grupal hacia esta, la coexistencia tranquila y las actitudes sosegadas siguen siendo las notas dominantes en los entornos populares españoles, sin que se hayan producido, en líneas generales, conflictos sociales o políticos significativos de carácter étnico. Esta singularidad española es analizada mediante una extensa investigación cualita…
A segregated rootedness: The integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes
Welcome Refugees? The Asylum System in Spain
The Spanish asylum system and refugee reception program demonstrate persistent problems involving initial access to asylum and the processing of applications; access to assistance from the reception system; and the process of integration of asylum seekers, which is characterized by social segregation. This article analyzes these issues and seeks to explain them by looking beyond the immediate circumstances of the substantial increase in applicati…
Is climate change threatening the habitat distribution of the critically endangered tree species Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata in Ecuador?
Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata (Meliaceae) are CITES-listed tropical timber species in Ecuador due to their high commercial value and extensive international trade. Thus, their populations have declined substantially as a consequence of selective logging and climate change. In this context, assessing their potential distribution under future climatic scenarios is essential for developing effective conservation and management strategies…
Autocratic Tools in Spanish Democratic Migration Governance. A Critical Analysis of the Use of Royal Decree-Laws
Autocratic policy tools are often associated with democratic backsliding and the erosion of checks and balances. Yet their use is not confined to illiberal regimes. This article examines whether, and in what sense, royal decree-laws in Spain can be understood as autocratic policy tools within a consolidated democracy. Although constitutionally designed for situations of extraordinary and urgent necessity, royal decree-laws temporarily concentrate…
The impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the Spanish development model, poverty and inequality
This article examines the changes in the Spanish socio-economic model following the 2008 Great Recession, using national and European data. It highlights three major transformations: (a) the deepening of a low-productivity accumulation model, (b) a less generous welfare state, particularly contributory policies like unemployment insurance, and (c) the deterioration of the family as a support mechanism. These shifts have led to a weakening of the …
Political science (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Humanities (4 works)