{"id":667002,"date":"2026-01-01T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667002\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:38:11","slug":"moroccans-make-up-81-of-spains-seasonal-workforce-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667002\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccans Make Up 81% of Spain\u2019s Seasonal Workforce in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat \u2013 Moroccan nationals dominated Spain\u2019s seasonal labor recruitment in 2025, accounting for more than four out of every five workers hired under the country\u2019s recruitment-at-origin mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Newly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inclusion.gob.es\/en\/w\/los-programas-gecco-permiten-que-25.767-personas-migrantes-trabajen-en-espa%C3%B1a-en-2025\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> data from Spain\u2019s Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration show a total of 25,767 foreign workers were recruited last year through the Gecco program, a system introduced in 2000 that allows workers to receive both residence and work permits before leaving their home countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 intake marks the highest figure recorded since the program\u2019s launch and represents an increase of roughly a quarter compared to 2024 levels.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the scheme came from 17 countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While several countries were represented, Morocco clearly led the rankings, far ahead of Colombia, which supplied 13% of the workforce, and Honduras, with 4%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other participating countries included Mauritania, Senegal, India, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Seasonal agricultural work continued to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2019\/12\/74628\/spain-moroccan-seasonal-workers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">drive<\/a> demand, with farms absorbing the bulk of recruited labor.<\/p>\n<p>Women made up the vast majority of workers, representing 92% of all recruits, while the average age stood at 43 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of regional distribution, workers were deployed across 21 Spanish provinces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huelva emerged as the main destination, hosting 84% of the recruits, largely due to its intensive agricultural activity and long-standing dependence on seasonal migrant labor.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish authorities said a new Gecco ordinance for 2026 is currently being finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The updated framework is expected to define recruitment conditions and shape Spain\u2019s circular migration strategy for the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabat \u2013 Moroccan nationals dominated Spain\u2019s seasonal labor recruitment in 2025, accounting for more than four out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,203438,203439,17107,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-667002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-moroccan-female-seasonal-workers-in-spain","11":"tag-moroccan-seasonal-workers","12":"tag-morocco-spain","13":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115820357430015984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}