Analyses of Spanish labor migration policies carried out in the 1990s revealed that they were reactive and sometimes erratic. However, over the past decade a series of proactive national initiatives emerged aimed at regulating labor migration. These initiatives were associated with the new requirements of some sectors during the economic boom Spain enjoyed during the past decade and with the search for alternative regulation mechanisms capable of supervising and controlling the flows promoted by the state. The most notable of these initiatives were directed at hiring workers in their countries of origin. Despite the reduced volume of workers involved in this kind of initiative compared to other labor migration regulations, they were significant because they represented a new philosophy toward migration management that was in accordance with many of the emerging principles on the international scene and because they were highly complex forms of management in which a large number of public and private actors intervened. The development of the project has revealed that these initiatives incorporated workers of different profiles and in different economic sectors, although the programs that involved the largest number of workers and had the greatest continuity over time were those implemented in the agricultural sector.