7 Billion Humans | Immigration: Indian Immigrants, Ramblas Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain

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Indian Immigrants, Ramblas Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain

Indians in Spain celebrate Vaisakhi, an ancient North Indian harvest festival, which includes the passing out of huge amounts of food. A procession began on Ramblas de Catalunya, a major street in Barcelona, and continued along Ramblas Raval, and ended at the Plaza St. Augustine.

These Sikhs from Punjab hauled shopping cart after shopping cart full of fresh fruit and handed it out to the general public. Booming Spain was Europe’s largest absorber of migrants from 2002 to 2007, with its immigrant population more than doubling as 2.5 million people arrived.