Adrián Zamoro (second on the left) and colleagues. I.Toledo. In
the five years from 1962 to 1966, which were at the height of
the great wave of emigration from Spain in that decade, some
790,000 people left the country, not to seek a better future but
just a future in other parts of Europe. In another five year
period, from January 2008 until the end of 2012, another 400,000
Spaniards will have decided to emigrate to find work. In fact,
2011 was the first year in the century so far in which more
people left Spain than came to settle here. Between the
beginning of 2008, when the first signs of what appeared to be a
slowing down of the economy occurred, and July 1st this year,
357,418 Spanish people went abroad to work, according to the
Electoral Census of Spanish Nationals Resident Abroad (CERA),
which registers those over the age of 18 who wish to exercise
their right to vote in Spain whilst in other countries. At the
beginning of 2008, 1.2 million Spaniards were registered with
CERA and the figure has now ri