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Edward Alexander Castaño Pérez é unha persoa migrante

Ricardo David Castaño Ares · 9 noviembre 2022 18:50

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Edward chegou a España un día de xaneiro do 2004 procedendente dunha cidade de Colombia chamada Manizales. Tiña 25 anos e veu con contrato de traballo dunha fábrica de aluminios. Quixo marchar de Colombia para mellorar a súa economía e para cambiar de ambiente xa que alí é moi fácil meterse en problemas. Instalouse en Bertamiráns e o que máis lle chamou a atención foi o frío que facía e que chovía moito. El non sabía que aquí se falaba galego e custoulle un pouco adaptarse e entendelo. Gustoulle moito a tranquilidade que hai aquí, podes pasear polas rúas sen preocupación de que che rouben o móbil, a carteira, o reloxo ou calquera outra cousa e se opós resistencia pódenche pegar un tiro ou clavar un coitelo.

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Verónica Bostan is a migrant!

Dani Bostán · 8 enero 2019 19:36

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José Cougil is a migrant

Xiana Souto Picos · 19 enero 2018 17:00

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José moved to Zürich when he was 9 years. He moved to Zürich by train and the journey took about one day. His parents were working in a hotel.
José started to go to a public school. He remembered that in PE was the first time that he saw a lot of football balls. He learned Züridütschan and German. José speak a beat of Italian too. He said there was one teacher who speaks Spanish and helped him with the language. In Switzerland children don´t start reading before 7 years.
He told us that people in this city were very polite with migrants.
There were differences between the migrants and the native people Straße of Zürich

When he was a child he was amazing because there were a lot of cars, especially Mercedes
He lived in an apartment with his two siblings and with his dad and mum. He did karate and he showed us a certificate of his lessons.
José at the age of ten was always riding to the train station. There he only saw Galician people and he was surprised about it. He recalled that all of these migrants had a sticker on their jackets which indicates the factory that they were going to work.
When he was sixteen years old he decided to become a mechanic. Also he had experience with electrician and carpenter. He studied mechanical for four years and then he did so many courses.
He worked in a petrol station, in the Volkswagen factory but at the age of 29 he owned an auto repair shop.
Later he moved to Galicia to bring some cars for here. He came 1 week here and another week in his garage.
One day he had an accident when he was bringing cars to Bertamiráns so he make a house in this place to start here a new life.
Nowadays he goes to Zürich to visit some friends and he knows about his garage. He knows that was closed short time but now is reopened.
He felt happy to have lived in Switzerland and showed us his grateful to the Swiss people for his kidness.

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Antía Rodríguez Ínsua · 30 enero 2019 18:00

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O meu tío avó ,Fernando era zapateiro e máis tarde fixo a mili, despois de mili, cando tiña 22 anos ,polo ano 1962, marchou para Alemania. Marchou para traballar no mar por culpa das necesidades economicas, xa que España non atravesaba unha boa economia nesa época, marchou obligado polas necesisdades. A Alemania foi nun coche particular que non sabía de quen era, nese coche iba con máis xente e non pasaron as duanas porque non levaban papeis, el levaba unha maleta con pouca roupa, xa que non a había.Cando chegou a Alemania non había traballo para el, porque só había catro prazas e había "veteranos" polo tanto el quedou sin ela. Mentres non o chamaban para embarcar vivía en Breme nos telamares (casa onde paraban os mariñeiros antes de embarcar) que pagaba o estado alemán, alí botou 15 días, neses días non facía nada e esperaba a que o chamaran para embarcar.
Veu un armador solicitando traballadores, el presentouse para embarcar ,era un barco mercante que ia de Tuerque (Belxica) onde cargaban ata Portugal. Nese barco era mariñeiro : limpiaba picaba etc. A carga que levaba era xeneral ( cebolas ,allos etc). Alí falaba coa xente en español e si non entendianse por xestos . Votou 3 meses embarcado nese barco. Tiña un camarote para el só alí durmiase ben, tamén facían guardias pola noite. Traballaban todos os dias 8 horas menos sabado e domingo .Pagaban máis que en España (pero ainda así era pouco).No seu tempo libre durmía e xogaba as cartas , se estaba en terra daba unha volta e comía moito polo asado. Comiase mellor alí que aquí.
Na primeira compañía botou 9 meses despois quedou en terra e volveu a embarcar outros 3 e como a comida dese barco non lle gustaba decidiu volver a España sobre o ano 1964.
Cando regresou fixo en tren. Empezou a traballar en compañias pesqueiras españolas que faenaban por todo o mundo, facía campañas de varios meses e cando remataban volvía a casa para estar coa súa familia ata que o chamaran para a embarcar outra vez. e así estivo ata que se xubilou os 55 anos.

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Laura Barreiro is a migrant

Sara Pazos Barreiro · 17 enero 2018 17:10

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Laura Barreiro studied nursing at the University Santiago de Compostela.
She lived in Galicia and she worked in the Clinic Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, but she always had the idea of travelling.
She found a job offer in facebook. She sent her curriculum vitae and they called her for an interview in Valencia. She went to Valencia and they offered her the job, which is in Mansfield. When she moved to Mansfield, she had to start working as an auxiliary nurse.
The first few months they gave her and her companions a house until they found lodgings.
She travelled with other Spanish nurses and now they all live together.
She says that the work is very different and was difficult for her to adapt, since they work differently when dealing with staff.
The language also difficult for her at first because although she knew English, the natives had a very strong accent, but now she understands it perfectly.
She spends her free time travelling, and in Christmas Holidays, she sometimes comes to visit us.

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