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This article examines some of the issues that arise from the integration of non-EU immigrant workers into the labour market in a region that boasts a successful agricultural sector. After establishing the characteristics of the regional economy in Murcia, one of Spain's autonomous
communities, the focus is on the rapidly changing composition of the migrant community and the process of its incorporation into an increasingly complex regional economy. The premise is that immigration from abroad is closely linked to the 'new' forms of agricultural production
associated with the intensive, export-oriented agriculture and with the rapid growth of the tourism and construction sectors that has become such a characteristic feature of southern and eastern Spain. One outcome has been the emergence of a new ethnic hierarchy of older and newer immigrants
and of the increasing prevalence of labour displacement, no longer of Spaniards by immigrants, but of one immigrant group by another. A survey of immigrants in Murcia carried out in 2002 serves to demonstrate the rapidly changing dynamics in this sensitive area.

This article focuses on the progress of the Portuguese economy under Salazar's successor, Marcelo Caetano (1968-74). It examines some of its chief features of economic development in this period, noting that change was often double-edged and created new problems and challenges.
Eventually, the direction of the economy became another issue that divided the supporters of the dictatorship as the international crisis triggered by the oil price rises imposed by OPEC in 1973 blew the regime's economic strategy off course. It is argued here that, while it was not
the principal reason for Caetano's demise, the state of the economy did play a significant part in weakening the regime's foundations.

In less than a decade, immigration has forced itself to the top of the political agenda in Spain. It now vies with Basque terrorism and unemployment as the issue that most concerns the Spanish public. Formerly a labour exporter, Spain is now a receiver society targeted by migrants from
North and sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe. Immigration presents multi-faceted problems and challenges, encompassing changing identities and cultural diversity, demography and population change, racism and discrimination, foreign policy, human rights, and labour market
integration among others. This article focuses on the tensions generated by the restriction and exclusion policies that have dominated the government's immigration management on the one hand, and the needs of the economy and employers on the other.

Focus on disappointment expressed by the ruling Socialist Party (PS) over failure to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly as opinion polls had predicted, although it emerged with a clear lead in the number of votes cast.