%0 Journal Article %T Espa£¿a: la violencia dom¨¦stica y el derecho de extranjer¨ªa %A Ortega Gim¨¦nez %A Alfonso %J Anuario mexicano de derecho internacional %D 2009 %I Instituto de Investigaciones Jur¨ªdicas %X today, domestic violence has become a social evil, and in a social problem by the number of victims it produces. in this context, the fact that spain has become, for some time now, in the host country of immigrants -because it is "door of europe"- has resulted, unfortunately, as a result, the foreign person is set as a victim of domestic violence. thus, all public authorities are acting, producing numerous legal instruments -technically well articulated-, who were born in order to tackle, from the outset, any conduct that in the future could degenerate into action even more serious. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-46542009000100019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en