21ST CENTURY MIGRATIONS IN EXTREMADURA: THE RETURN IMMIGRATION

Emigration has been one of the most relevant demographic, social, economic and political events in Extremadura. The number of people from Extremadura who continued to live outside of the region in 2010 is 608.101, representing 54,9% of the total population, according to the regional census, and 63,9% of those born and residing in the region. This total has been feeding a return immigration that, since the middle of the seventies, has experienced significant changes, not only in numbers, but also in its internal composition. The consolidation of new return patterns since the second half of the eighties and the characteristics of this flow during the first decade of the 21st century are the main focus of this study.