Spain needs immigrants. But does it still want them?
An unusually welcoming European country has second thoughts
IT IS THE season of calm seas off the Sahara, and each week several hundred African migrants turn up on the shores of the Canary Islands, packed tightly into open fishing boats. Some of them, especially those from Mali, are fleeing violence. Many more are economic migrants, lured by the prospect of much higher wages in Europe, if they can somehow get there.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The tests of tolerance”
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