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Luz is a migrant
 

Andrea Rodríguez Ramos · 7 febrero 2018 16:20


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My mother was born in Burela (Lugo). When she was some months old she and her family migrated to Coruña because her parents got a job in Coruña.

When my mather was three years old her parents and she migrated to Cariño is a town nears to coruña.

In 1979 when my mother was 6 years old my grandparents and she moved to Telde in Gran Canaria, they migrated also for her parents got a new job.

When my mother was nine years old, she migrated to Nois a small town of Foz (Lugo) becouse my grand father got a better job in this town.

My mother lived in Nois five years, when she was 14 years old, she returned to Burela in Lugo. Her parents and she returned to Burela because they want have a better life.

The 20 of september when my mother was adult. She migrated to Santiago de Compostela because she wanted study quimic in the university of Santiago de Compostela.

In 2003 my mother migrated with my father to Ames. They migrated thinked that in this place they had a better life.

My mother did all days since 2003 a pendular migration she went to Brión all mornings to work.

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Manuel Gómez is a migrant
 

Pablo García Gómez · 21 febrero 2018 20:07


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My grandfather, born in 1944; when he had only 16 years old, he must went his first migration to Andalucía because he must brought money to his house. When he had between 18 and 19 years he migrate two times to Barcelona and when he had 19 years he migrate to Lyon, France; then he went back to Galicia because he must did the military service. When he finished the military service, he went to La Coruña because he must take a boat because he must went fishing to the gran sol sea and, after three tides, went to house and got married with my grandmother.

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Higinia Prieto is a migrant
 

Laura Montaña Mata · 16 enero 2018 17:35


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Higinia was born on the 1935 in Marrozos, when she lived with all her sisters and his aunts. The summer of 1947 she goes to a apartament in Villalba to work. She liked stay there because it was an interesting summer and she met many people from Madrid. At the age of 18 she found a job in Santiago de Compostela as a housewife in the train station of the city (because the director of the station lived in the secound plant of the build) and she stayed at a provisional familly flat. Years ago she got married and decided to bought a house in Santiago for himself and his husband. She had a child, who got married in 1999. Then I was born on the 2004 and a year later she moved with her daugther, his wife and me to our flat in Bertamirans, where stills living actually. Now she doesn't goes to Santiago much often but she always says that it is and still will be the same city that she knew for many years, coexisting with all modern society and the technological advances of our days because is what the cities are for, to harbor people for centuries, before disappearing completely.

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Luz is a migrant
 

Mateo Pardal Vila · 19 junio 2018 20:06


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Alfredo is a migrant
 

Anxo Blanco Pazos · 9 febrero 2018 21:57


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My uncle Alfredo was born in 1935, in a small village in the parish of Ameixenda. They were 7 Brothers, the emigrated to Argentina and another of his brothers to Great Britain.
He was 21 years old when he embarked from the port of Vigo for Argentina, the voyage lasted about 6 months. The first years were very difficult, thus he met his wife, also immigrant, she was Ames. They had 2 children. For years they could not return to Spain, but my grandparents and great-grandparents were receiving letters every month, my great-grandmother wrote him telling them how it was all here. The first time that they could come was in 1974, they came the 4. They were gradually coming more frequently and my cousins came even more frequently. In 2000 my aunt Lola died and my uncle did not come for several years, but then wine a few times, which was when I met him. The truth is that Argentina did them well, studios gave my cousins. They bought a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and several flat. In September of last year, died aged 82. This Christmas one of my cousins, Alfredo, como with his family to visit us.

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