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Naidine, seven, at Madrid's Barajas Airport awaiting a flight back to her native Ecuador. Her grandfather, Andrés, cries in the background.
PACKING UP FOR HOME

The immigrants' flight from Spain

They arrived on the back of the construction boom and bought houses that now rest with the banks Spain's immigrant population is falling for the first time this century Unemployed workers are forced to return to their native lands, carrying less than they arrived with