Abstract Spain’s sluggish recovery from the financial crisis of the past decade, changing domestic and international politics, armed conflicts and natural disasters, all constitute factors that prompt migration and lead to significant changes in the composition of society. The main objective of this article is to compare and contrast the level of linguistic integration of the migrant population at two different moments during the twenty-first century. The study is focused mainly on central Spain and two specific public-service settings: police and health care. A descriptive–comparative method is used to observe, collect and analyze data and describe and compare them to previous studies. A quantitative and qualitative approach is followed. The results indicate that the situation has changed only slightly over the past two decades. Communication between immigrants and public-service providers is still far from fluent, and the financial crisis has negatively affected the development of public service interpreting and translation.

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那该死的金融危机：移民人口的语言整合的转折点？

摘要西班牙从过去十年的金融危机中复苏缓慢，国内外政治变化，武装冲突和自然灾害，都是促使移民移徙并导致社会结构发生重大变化的因素。本文的主要目的是比较和对比二十一世纪两个不同时刻的移民人口的语言融合水平。该研究主要集中在西班牙中部和两个特定的公共服务场所：警察和卫生保健。描述性比较方法用于观察，收集和分析数据，并将其描述和与以前的研究进行比较。遵循定量和定性方法。结果表明，在过去的二十年中，情况仅发生了微小变化。