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Antonio Santamaria is a migrant
 

Lucía Dieste Piñeiro · 19 enero 2018 20:19


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This personis my grandmother´s grandad.He is called Antonio.He was born in 1900 in Galicia,Spain . In this timeGalicia was very hard because there weren´t any jobs.When he was 25 years old he emigrated leaving behind his wife and one son. He emigrated to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic but , he realized that it didn´t convince him so he decided to go to United Stated of America , exactly to the city of Ohio, that in that moment it was very industrialized. He found a good job. He worked in a metal factory.He didn´t return to Galiciauntil he was retired. He was 40 years away from his family.


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Sara Antelo is a migrant
 

Uxía Fernández Blanco · 18 enero 2018 23:15


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My grandmother went to Frankfurt because she had to get money for her family. Because they were hard times. She lived in Frankfurt 53 years. During her stay she met a man, this man is my grandfather and he is andalusian, he is a migrant. My grandmother returned to Galicia in 1969 because my uncle born, 3 years leater born my father. After my father was born, my grandmother left her children with her mother, while my grandmother got money, my father and my uncle grew up with my great grandmother. After my father was born, my grandparents only came to Galicia one month a year. So until 2013, when they retired and stayed permanently in Galicia.


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As decepcións da migración.

 

Airas Xuncal Martínez · 9 noviembre 2022 18:15


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A miña avoa tivera que marchar a Arxentina no ano 1961 e despois de casar co meu avo José Martínez García, porque o irma da miña avoa reclamouna. Primeiro para emigrar a un país era necesario ter un familiar residindo nese territorio para facilitar o permiso de entrada, candochegaron ao porto, a miña avoa foi a entrevitas laborales, so puido conseguir traballo como limpiadora porque carecía de algun tipo de formación (ainda que ela era costureira). O primeira vivenda onde estiveron os meus avos cando chegaron a Arxentina, exactamente Buenos Aires, tiveron que vivir por un tempo nun comventillo, que era un lugar compartido donde so tiñas con sorte unha habitación individual sen ter que compartila. Durante o tempo que estiveron na Arxentina, os meus avos cambiaron varias veces de traballo, vivendo e mudaron de Buenos Aires a Mar de Plata. A miña avoa a idea regresar non lle gustaba xa que se adaptara aos avances que había ali e non quería volver a vida rural que había en Portumouro. Os meus avos tiveron que regresar a Galiza no ano 1976 por culpa do estado de saude do meu avó, porque o clima sentaballe mal.

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Candy Sóñora Bustelo is a migrant
 

Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 18 enero 2018 17:09


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My mother grew up, in Teaio, a small village in Dodro. When she was an adult, she came to Bertamirans, with my father Marcos. In 2004 she had a baby, it was me. a year later, she went to Madrid to study, and she came here again in 2005. then, my father and she, had another baby who is my brother. Later,she and us, came to a house they bought in Bertamirans. Now, she is living in a house there with us. Three years ago, she went to a school where people study to be chefs, and she finished the Master last year in Christmas when I finished the first term in school.


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A vida de Nieves Cancela en Montevideo

 

Xoán Montero Fuentes · 9 noviembre 2022 18:14


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A miña avoa naceu en 1939 en Galicia, España. Criouse nunha familia de tres irmáns, nunca época moi difícil onde era fácil pasar fame e non conseguir traballo. Ela nunca tuvo infancia, xa que traballou no campo desde que era pequena para poder alimentar á súa familia. Debido a esta mala situación decidiron emigrar a Uruguay, un país desenvolvido e con moitas oportunidades de traballo. Aos 19 anos, en 1958, levarían a miña avoa cos seus irmáns a Montevideo para vivir unha nova vida, onde aprendería o oficio de perruqueira. Anos máis tarde coñecería a Manolo Montero, o meu avó, que tamén migraría a alí por motivos económicos. Rematarían casándose e tendo tres fillos, entre eles meu pai, decidindo así volver a Galicia con eles en 1975 ,tras acabar o Franquismo, para intentar superar a vida que lles quedaba. Ao final viviría máis momentos difíciles, pero ella seguiría loitando para manter a súa familia residindo actualmente nos Ánxeles, Brión.