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Henok Martínez Rodríguez · 31 diciembre 2018 14:43


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Alejandro when he was a child studying English as a foreign language in England and in Ireland during the summers. He liked the experience and while he was studying at the university he did an Erasmus exchange at University College Cork in Ireland and afterwards a exchange at the University of Richmond in Virginia, USA.

When he was searching for his first job, Alejandro he had the chance to job in Portugal for an international consortium, working on a vocational studies proposition for the European Union. He lived in Espinho, a town south of Porto, for six months.

Afterwards he got a job as an intern in the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Athens, Greece, through a scholarship of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago de Compostela of one year. There he helped Spanish companies export their products to Greece and Cyprus. He really liked the job and when the position of acting market analyst became vacant, Alejandro took the chance and got the job. His responsibilities grew. During his years in Athens he helped to organize many trade delegations visits to the countries, including one with the participation of the then Prime Minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He lived in Athens for two years.

Two years later the job of Market Analyst of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He moved directly from Athens to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, a large city in the middle of the desert in the Arabian Peninsula. He worked there for four years helping Spanish companies. There he managed too a small group of economist of the Institute of International Trade of Spain (ICEX).

After four years living in Riyadh, Alejandro decided that he needed some changes professional and personal. Alejandro quería estar más tiempo de sus amigos y familiares, para el era un poco duro vivir en un país como Arabia Saudita con una cultura y religión tan distinta a la suya. After thinking about it for some time, Alejandro decided to leave his job and return to Spain.

Alejandro decided to search for a job in Spain, preferably in Galicia. He also wanted to change the kind of job he was to do. It wasn't easy for Alejandro to find a new job. The economic crisis was very strong in Spain and there was a lot of unemployment when he returned. It took him two years to find an interesting job as a project manager at a research institute at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Today, Alejandro helps researchers find resources for their research.

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Amalia Gómez Enjo is a migrant
 

Carla Cantelar Ces · 19 enero 2018 22:47


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My grandfather and my grandmother lived here, in Ames, but after the war, all was very difficult,so, my grandfather decided emigrate to Venezuela. My grandmother stayed here with my aunt during 5 years; then, my grandfather sent money to buy tickets to travel there by ship. They travelled during 17 days. My grandmother and my aunt met with my grandfather and they stayed in this country during a lot of years. My mum was born there. They worked a lot there and they had a lot of friends from another countries. They returned in 1978 with my mum. My aunt is still living there.

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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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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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Eduardo Castelo is a migrant
 

Andrés Castelo Corral · 7 febrero 2018 16:28


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He wakes up all mornings and he goes to Noia because he works there. When he arrives his boss speaks with him and tells where my father goes this day to work. Sometimes, the work of my father is near but other times is far. He works in a company crane. He sometimes eats in a restaurant because he doesn´t finish his job or because his work is very far. After that he returns his work to finish. This happens all day except Sundays but sometimes my father doesn´t sleep in my house because his work is very far.
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