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/ 14 September 2006

Immigration, tourism collide in Canaries

Immigration and mass tourism are coexisting rather awkwardly in Spain’s Canary Islands, where more than 24 000 African migrants have arrived this year. Over the summer, a moving picture emerged of sunbathers rushing to aid exhausted Africans and offer them succour as they dragged themselves onto the beach after a perilous voyage lasting days in rickety fishing boats.