The growth of unemployment rate in Spain has carried out changes on immigration public policies and their maintenance; we consider those have fostered immigrant associations’ distrust and involved their social and political progressive demobilization. The aim of this paper is to analyse immigrant associations’ social and political participation to verify the above mentioned hypothesis. We will also study the processes and acts of ethnic mobilisation in Spain prior to the current economic crisis in order to compare them with their present attitude of resignation. We will approach the potential relationship among the increase of the foreign population, the process of immigration policy change, and its impact on the number of associations and their social dynamics. The research findings try to prove (or reject) the classical thesis on immigrant group which associates herd/conformity behaviour to conservative mentality and the rebel/non-conformist action to progressive orientation.
