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Santiago Valentín is migrant
 

Natalia Vázquez Fernández · 21 febrero 2018 20:47


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I,m going to do the work on mygrandfather. He emigrated to Hollandin 1964, he went there to working a whel factory. He was living in Enschede, in a pension paid by the factory. My grandmother's was my grandfather's was my grandmother's boyfriend and he sent him gifs from there. He cameback because he didn't like living there. He didn't like food because he says they only ate sandwiches. My grandfather went and he came back day by train from Holland. He wasn't alone, it was with two othes friends, Moises and Pampin. One of them came back before my grandfather later and the third stayerd a while longer. To communicate with the people of Holland there werw interpreters. There were many people, who were cycling. During his stay in Holland he went to visit Amsterdam. In spite of everything, Holland liked it a lot in terms of appearance.

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María Virtudes is a migrant
 

Mario Barcia Pazos · 19 enero 2018 20:08


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My mother María Virtudes was an emigrant.
She went to live in Switzerland - Geneva for 5 years. I had found a good job and also my aunt María lives there, she left Galicia at 18, in Switzerland she worked as a waitress with the purpose of learning the language, she also told me that several times during the year she worked there, she found clients sleeping at the tables or even at the bar, then she started working in an industrial laundry where she made a great deal of contact with the owners, and even treated her like a daughter, he was a retiree of the second war world, and she the owner of the laundry for a long time.
My mother left Switzerland due to a dehydration illness at the age of 23, went back to her parents' house and lived there for 4 years, of which she spent 1 year going to work walking 6 kilometers to a clothing cooperative. With 28 years he married my father and together they went to live in Coruña for 6 years, until my older brother was born, after this they came to live in Bertamiráns and moved a couple of more times until he divorced me. father. With my two brothers and I in their custody we went to live in Pedregal, we moved back to Bertamiráns, 2 times more, until we found what is our home now.

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Dosinda Pereira é unha persoa migrante

 

Sara Calvo Pérez · 7 noviembre 2022 20:06


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No ano 1969, cando a miña avoa tiña 20 anos, decidiu emigrar a Francia para gañar máis cartos. Como de aquela ata os 21 anos aínda eras menor de idade o seu bisavó tivo que firmar un permiso de consentimento para que ela puidera marchar a Francia.
Marchou para alí no mes de agosto de ese mesmo ano e foi en tren, tardou 1 dia en chegar.
Ela chegou sen saber falar francés, asi que foi traballar de asistente doméstica á casa duns franceses que daban clases de español nun instituto público.
2 anos despois a miña avoa voltou a Españano mes de xullo.

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Camilo Riveiro Lebrato is a migrant
 

Nicolás Iglesias Piñeiro · 30 enero 2019 16:39


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Camilo é un ex xogador profesional de baloncesto, nacido en Uruguay o 5 de marzo de 1977,con descendencia asturiana e galega.
Según nos informa, él quería desarrollar a súa carreira profesional en Europa, pero non se decidía a dar o salto.
Na crisis económica do ano 2002 en Latinoamérica, as opcións para a súa profesión vironse seriamente afectadas, entón tomou a firme decisión de buscar as opcións de traballo en España.
Nun principio, como non recibía ningunha oferta
da súa profesión de baloncesto, decidíu mercar unha pasaxe de avión para Tenerife onde se atopaba o seu irman menor, Pedro, para unha vez alí buscar opcións de traballo no baloncesto, pero mentras non se dera, buscaría traballo no mundo da hostelería que era o q mais abundaba nas illas Canarias.
No último momento, 2 días antes de viaxar, recibe unha oferta dunha proba nun equipo de segunda división na cidade de A Coruña, onde si pasaba a proba dunha semana, quedaría contratado no equipo.
Ao chegar, puxose a disposición do equipo, fixo todo o esforzó que foi capaz e superou a proba para gañarse o contrato do basquet Coruña.
Así entrou nas dinámicas das ligas do baloncesto español para desarrollar 10 anos da súa carreira profesional no noso país.
A pesar das diferenzas en costumes, tradicións, clima e mais diferenzas entre os países, foi capaz de adaptarse ben ao noso país.
Logo de varios anos recorrendo España, vivindo en distintas ciudades da península, volveu a Galicia para enrolarse nas filas do Rosalía de Castro da cidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde coñeceu a Anxela (miña tía paterna), compostelana, coa que decidíu compartir a súa vida. En maio do 2010 tiveron ao seu fillo Mateo(o meu curmá).
Actualmente, xa retirado como xogador de baloncesto dende o ano 2014, vive en Ames e exerce de director deportivo da canteira do Obradoiro CAB de Santiago.


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Michelle Segade is a migrant
 

Candela Martínez Fuentes · 17 enero 2018 16:01


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Michelle was born in Edinburgh (Scotland), in 1966, although, her father was Galician. She came to Spain with almost 4 years, by boat, she still remembers the sound of the siren. When she arrived, she went to life in Coruña with the idea of staying there but two years later she went to a boarding school in Ferrol to study. One of the many memories she has of that boarding school is that a nun had locked her in the salt of the caldera as punishment, luckily for her, at age 14 she went to another boarding school in Coruña and the following year she went to her parents and her brothers ( which are photographed in the photo that Michelle holds in the photo of his work) to Culleredo. When she was 19 years old, she went to study voluntarily in Coruña where she married her current husband. in 1988 she went to live in Santiago and in the same year her first son was born. Then, in 1997 she came to Bertamirans, where she currently lives and works as an artisan in her own home. Today she is tired of migrating and says she doesn´t want to migrate anymore.
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