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Antonio is a migrant
 

Adrián Márquez Chapela · 30 enero 2019 16:46


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Germán Pérez is a migrant.
 

Nayra Pérez Otero · 19 enero 2019 12:34


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In March 1998 my father migrated from José Ignacio Rucci 164, Ciudadela, Buenos Aires, Argentina to Milladoiro, Ames, Galicia, Spain till september 1999, when he returned to his home.
Was a voluntary, temporary and international migration , for a social reason.
Then, he migrated in April 2000 to milladoiro again and the reason was that he met my mother so, the migration was for a social reason, voluntary , temporary and international migration.
In 2001 he migrated from Milladoiro, Spain to Los Cristianos, Tenerife Sur with Patricia Otero, my mum. The migration was for an economic reason, voluntary, permanent and international.
Altough my mother returned to Galicia, he is living still in the same place with a new wife.
In Argentina, Germán was optometrist, he had a very good job, an own house, car... his economy was very good. He has a sister (my aunt),2 years older than his parents.
One day he decided to make a trip to visit different countries and cities in Europe with a friend of his. In that long travel he knew my mother and he took the decision to leave his good life for coming to Spain looking for the love.
The begining was very hard, but with efford, doing all the things rightly, and confidence in himself, he couldn´t fail.
The first job he had in Spain was a company that make food for fishes.
Use to carry bags of 50kg to a machine, different products, and then that machine mix all to make that food.
One day, one of those bags (tha last bag of the day) broke over him when he was taking it to that process.
He was smelling complety to fish, the worst part of it was when he went to take the bus; the people looked at him for that strong perfum, even after three days he could feel that.
One of his grandfathers was from Lugo, he was called Antonio. The sister of Antonio, Isaura, fleed to Argentina for the Civil War in Spain. A few years later, Antonio met her in Argentina. They never returned to their place of birth, but each one of them formed his own family, the family of my father, my family.
He loves football, in Argentina use to go all the weekends to see his team, everywhere. When he plays with his friends he´s goalkeeper.
He studied for optometrist in his country, then when he came to Spain had to validate it to the Spanish one after one year in the university of Santiago de Compostela
Thanks to he´s optometrist in Tenerife, where there are many of British tourists, he knows a lot of English.

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Ramón Is A Migrant
 

Andrea Barreiro · 26 enero 2019 20:36


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Ramón Castro Lestón is a migrant , he is my grandfather , was born in Galicia , Spain . He leaved Spain when he was about 39 years , and then he emigrated to Switzerland ,the migration was seasonal . Ramón was working in a merchantman , working as a cooker ,when he decided to look for a job with better working conditions . A few months later my grandfather found an agreement in an enterprise of construction called Jeam Fantolini á Bonvillar of the position of framer , the working conditions wasn´t the best but the salary was much better, Ramón had to maintain his wife and her 3 children , so he decided to call the employes of the enterprise to work at it . A few weeks later he was taked on .The 5 -12-1972 , he leave Spain , and about the 4-11-1992 he was at Switzerland .The company was very clever because he maked the contract for 6 months and when the 6 months had finished , the contract ends and my grandfather had to retun to Spain , and then when the summer ends , in december the company taked on again , to work at the same conditions ,and at the same position , the enterprise didn´t like to pay my grandfather holidays , he was in charged stop during the summer. About 10 years before my grandmother was sick of cancer of prancreas , my grandfather had 4 children to maintain so he decided to continue working for this company. 1 year before my grandmother was died , and the four children were about : 9,13,16,18 years old ,so they have to distribute money for all of the months,7 years before my aunt Loli got merried with her groom ,and then my other uncle got merried 3 years after . Ramón retunted to Spain 3-12-1993 , because he has 60 , and he was retired , he got a diploma of the enterprise Jean Fantollini á Bonvillar . He stayed 21 years working in Switzerland of framer .Then actually he has 84 years old he has 5 grandchildren , and he lives in Muros , Ramón is a very happy migrant.He Was very worried about his sons, but he learnt german fluently . When Ramón starts to Live in Switzerland, he thinks that this country Was very similar ro Spain, but Spain Was cheaper than Switzerland. He missed the sea and the gastronomy oficial Galicia. He learn German quickly, so ir Was not dificultades todo Ramón. Encofrador-persona que hace armazones.

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María is a migrant
 

Irene Fajín Valiñas · 11 enero 2019 17:43


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My mum when she was little, went to a school trip to Andalucía. She went volunteered, and then when she was 17, she emigrated to France, Paris. This migration was temporary, voluntary and international.
With 21 years old, my mum began to work in the clinical hospital, and since then
she makes a pendular migration to Santiago de Compostela and also she went to Mallorca with my dad and the following year, emigrated to Barcelona for economic reasons.
With 25 years old she emigrated to Negreira, where she stayed with mu dad to live for three years, in the four years i was born and my brother, and my soon after we moved to Bertamiráns permanently for social reasons. My sister, who was born later,didn`t get to do none of these migrations.
With thirsty four years, my mum went to Argelia, and then to Italy, both voluntary, temporaly and internationally.
Finally in 2017, she went to Valencia to do a conference on medicine, for economic reasons but voluntary, and in 2018, she went to Madrid, by the same grounds.

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Juan Pato is a migrant
 

niko pato ces · 7 febrero 2018 19:20


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