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Manuel is a migrant.
 

Laura Fernández Terán · 18 enero 2018 23:04


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He took a taxi at three o'clock in the morning to the airport of Santiago de Compostela, he embarked to Madrid, and from Madrid he took a transfer to Dubai, then went to Chennai, India. Two of his friends from the company where he worked with took him to a hotel, which was very horrible, where there was no shower and he had to take a shower with a bucket of water. The next day they went to look for him in a car, to take him to his place of work, on the way he could observed that the traffic in India was not like the traffic in Europe, it was a disaster of animals and vehicles. Another thing that could differentiate from Europe was the food, because the only thing that he could eat was white rice and spicy chicken.
India has a high population density, and most of them go without shoes. Manuel could appreciate the many spice stands that were there and that the Indians look at you differently and do not have the same respect as the people who are there.
The temperatures were very high and there was a lot of humidity.
When he finished his work in Chennai, he went to Coimbatore, where he was only two weeks. Then it was to the south of the country, where the fauna was very varied, there were monkeys, giant bats and all kinds of reptiles. In India he was two and a half months and finally returned to Spain. His experience in India was very horrible.

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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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Susana is a migrant
 

Carla Crespo Berdullas · 29 enero 2019 17:42


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Susana Carnota Marco naceu o 9 de agosto do ano 1975, en Sabadell (Barcelona).Estudou en Granollers (Provincia de Barcelona), no colexio Mª Ana Mogas. Deixou de estudar aos 17 anos.
O 1 de setembro de 1992 emigrou a Londres de maneira voluntaria, para aprender inglés, pois convalidáballe co curso que estaba a facer.
Ademais, na súa estadía en Londres (duns 7 meses),estivo coidando de dous nenos chinos, cando só tiña 18 anos.
Abandona Inglaterra o día 15 de abril do ano 1993 (de maneira voluntaria), para ir ó seu lugar de nacemento, Barcelona.
En Barcelona, traballaba nun negocio familiar, e polas tardes facía un curso de informática.
O seu pai era galego, e a súa nai, catalá.
Cando a súa irmán voltou para Galicia (o 13 de outubro de 1995), foron as dúas xuntas (voluntariamente), a vivir coa súa avoa. Isto débese a que por parte de pai, a súa familia era galega, pero tamén porque non había moito traballo. No momento en que emigrou a Galicia tiña 20 anos.
En Galicia sacou o carné de conducir, tivo moitas oportunidades de traballo, etc. Deste xeito, decidiu quedar a vivir alí.
Casouse no ano 1997 (en Galicia) e tivo dous fillos; Juan e Miriam.
Actualmente, segue traballando nunha fábrica de madeira, no posto de administrativa.Todos os días desprázase a Santiago para ir a traballar.

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Remedios Rodriguez is a migrant.
 

Fátima Orosa Paz · 18 enero 2018 20:21


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She was born in Segan on 1940.When she has twenty year old ,she has his firts migration.She went to Switzerland with his sisters and brothers.There was for five years ago.The migration was social and voluntary.After she went to Germany because she needed money.She went to Germany alone.The migration was economic and forced.When she has enough money she went back to Segan in Galician.The migration was voluntary and social.In Segan she met a man,my grandfather.They got to know each other.Une day they decided to get marriend and went live together.Then they went to live in Pontevedra because my grandfather's house was there.The migration was social and voluntary,this migration was permanent too,but te previous migrations was temporality.There my grandparents form a family.

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Manuela Ageitos is a migrant
 

Juan Trigo García · 7 febrero 2018 17:02


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In the 20th century, life was hard, this story is told from the eyes of a young Galician girl who after facing many bumps now tells her life. Manuela Ageitos, a median of five siblings lived together until she was 18 years old with an overwhelming poverty and without many necessary resources (such as electricity ...). The food shone in the dishes of this family almost by its absence, the culture was the only abundant there, their pardes took care that she could read and maintain a certain composure, but could not take it to school or institute. The work shared the same characteristic for very little remuneration, she toured the town of Porto do Son by roads on cliffs with a box of fish on her head ... This did not change until later.
1965, at 18 years of age she worked in a canning factory and spent the winters working in the Noia river collecting cockles and other bivalves. In 1967, she met the man with whom she would be predestined and for that reason she prepared the suitcase and the love and eagerness to work took her to ... Marseille, France where she got a job as a housekeeper working up to 4 years in her first house. In 1969 life smiled at her 22 years of age when she had her first child who took him to the nursery closest to his work because it was incompatible with it. A sudden return to Spain occurred during two months in 1971 when a large strike forced them to leave their trades behind and flee to their home, when they returned to Marseille she had both a job and a different home in which she put a lot of energy and much love. His final return to Spain occurred in 1976 when she was 29 years old and had more money, and a house under construction also forced them to return a disease that Manuela suffered. Juan, his son was already 7 years. Porto do Son, her home where he had his daughter, my mother and many other events that marked his life forever ...is the place where she lives now...
In the picture, I'm with her, I have an old picture of her migration and we are with a set of tea cups wich were gifted to her in France.

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