The economic crisis forces many young Catalans to leave the country or stay abroad and not be able of coming back. Abroad they find jobs in their sectors and better salaries. To sump up: they find more opportunities. It is a wave of new emigrants, most of them highly qualified. Here are the stories of some of them.
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18.04.2011 - 08.15 pm
Catalan Antonio Àlvarez runs the Park Hyatt Hotel in Buenos Aires, the most important and luxurious hotel in the Argentinian capital. He is an example of a new emigration phenomenon.
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08.03.2011 - 02.19 pm
Catalan Juan Ferrando is the personal trainer of the Arsenal’s captain. Ferrando is training up some of the best football players in the English league. He left Catalonia looking for greater working experiences.
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02.03.2011 - 09.13 pm
Maria Busqué decided to move to Berlin so that she could live off a musician's income, something she found almost impossible in Catalonia. This is a story from the new Catalan emigration.
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20.01.2011 - 09.24 pm
Numerous talented Catalan researchers are pioneering new research in a prestigious British university but they still cannot find a job in Catalonia.
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21.01.2011 - 09.19 pm
Catalan Víctor Perez is only 18 years old but he currently resides in Belgium where he is training to become a professional dancer. A student at one of the most prestigious dance schools in Europe run by the international renowned choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, the youngster from Sant Cugat is one of the top 60 contemporary dancer pupils.
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19.01.2011 - 09.45 pm
"Although there is a very high standard in Barcelona, the clients are not the same”, this is the opinion of a Catalan web developer who is currently based in Manhattan. This is his story.
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18.01.2011 - 11.07 pm
Two Catalans opened a guided tour business in Berlin making the most of the economic crisis and the fact that the city was ‘fashionable’. They set up ‘Cultourberlin’, a project that would offer Spanish and Catalan tourists guided tours of Berlin
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17.01.2011 - 09.49 pm
A young Catalan architect with no employment opportunities at home opens an office in Paris to work on buildings in Asia.
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