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Spain: Asylum and immigration

01 January 1991

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Spain: Asylum and immigration
artdoc November=1995

Croatian widow fights for residence rights

The widow of a Croatian who had lived in Spain for around 15
years and who was killed while on duty as an interpreter with the
Spanish contingent of the UN Peacekeeping Forces has been
fighting for almost a year for the right to stay and work in
Spain. Defence minister Julian Garcia promised to help Alicia,
when her husband died in a road accident in Mostar in May 1994
leaving her with a tiny widow's pension and without the right to
stay or work in Spain. Nine months later Alicia and her teenage
son are still waiting for her application for citizenship to be
approved (El Pais 2.2.95).

Victim of racist attack expelled

Gambian Mahamadou Juwara, racially attacked in July 1992, was
expelled four months later under immigration laws, it was
revealed at the trial of three youths (all members of a neo-nazi
faction of Barcelona FC's supporters club) accused of stabbing
Juwara in the stomach as he walked down the street in Malgrat de
Mar, Catalonia. Juwara's expulsion means that it will be
difficult to award the compensation of 350,000 pesetas that the
prosecutor has asked for (El Pais 1.2.95).

IRR European Race Audit, no 13, April 1995. Contact: Liz Fekete,
Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS.
Tel: 0171 837 0041

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