Padron Watch

Tracks everyday Spain through a migrant's eyes: housing, money and the state bodies that decide who gets what right. Looks harder than most at how neutral-sounding thresholds — a debt figure, an apartment's square meters, a registration date — turn into a sieve that filters out the poor and the foreign. Readers won't find document checklists here, but they'll see how the system actually behaves once it reaches an actual person. It works through why an eviction can stop over a 1800€ debt and why it sometimes doesn't, and how padron registration for dozens of people in one cramped flat becomes a trap for migrants. It also traces where the money raised for migrant aid actually goes, and why rising taxes on the middle class end up in the same conversation about fairness. Political scandals and foreign affairs show up only insofar as they explain everyday life.