Moving to Spain Forums

ruc · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 1 Home Country: austria

Hi everybody!
We are a bunch of students from Scandinavia doing a thesis on British expats in Spain. If you have a spare five minutes could you please, please help us by filling out this questionnaire and send it to us. Appreciate it!

Please send the questionnaire to: rhafner@ruc.dk or les05057@stud.mah.se
Thank you very much for your time and effort (and sorry for that listing above, just found out that you cannot post any files there ... so if you prefer a word-document, just mail me!)!

Name: Age: Sex:

Time lived in Spain:

1. For what reason(s) did you relocate to Spain?

2. Did you have help when emigrating and settling down in your host country? Who helped you?

3. Are you a member of expat clubs, societies, or organisations?

a. Which ones?

b. Why did you enter those clubs in the first place?

4. Do you have strong ties to the British community in Spain?

5. What makes you especially British (e.g. behaviour, social habits, etc.)?

6. What does it mean to you to be British abroad?

7. Would you still classify Britain as your homeland?

a. If you were asked to define what ‘homeland’ means for you, what would that be?

8. Do you follow British politics and domestic news?

a. Do you discuss politics among your friends/circle?

b. What are the main topics of concern?

c. What is specifically your main source of info about Britain?

9. How integrated are you in Spanish society on a scale of 1 (not integrated at all) to 10 (absolutely integrated)?

10. What, in your opinion, are the factors that make it difficult to integrate?

11. How has Britain changed since you’ve moved away?

12. What would be the main reasons that you would want to return to live in Britain?