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Celsa Míguez is a migrant
 

Adrián Vilariño Abelenda · 18 enero 2018 16:27


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When my mother was one year, my grandparents emigrated to England because in Galicia they didn´t get a job. They moved to London and they left my mother with her parents. In London, my grandmum got a job as a Spanish's teacher in a High School, next to the Parliament. She and my grandad bought a house in Notting Hill and they had got a child. When I was two years old I met her. In 2015 my mum and I went to London and they enjoyed the travel because we visited a lot of places like London Eye, Big Ben, Portobello market or Buckingham Palace. Last year my grandmother, my grandfather and my uncle returned to Bertamiráns.

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A chegada de Manuel Blanco e a sorpresa de Lorena Payno Blanco

 

Mateo Vázquez de Parga Payno · 9 noviembre 2022 19:24


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Os meus bisavós cando eran noivos vivían na Estrada. Tiveron unha filla que era a miña avoa. Eles querían ter unha vida e futuro mellor e decidiron emigrar en 1957 a Caracas (Venezuela) e a filla deixárona a cargo duns familiares na Estrada. En Venezuela, tiveron outra filla e como non tiñan diñeiro para coidala, mandárona nun barco a España, para que a coidaran os familiares que estaban ca outra. O meu bisavó empezou a traballar de camareiro e outros traballos e iba aforrando hasta que tiveron un negocio, unha droguería. O que máis lles chamou a atención de alí foi a cantidade de emigrantes de moitos diversos países. En 1968 os meus bisavós decidiron ir a España para ir a buscar as súas fillas e que se volveran todos xuntos a Venezuela. As fillas estiveron en contra diso porque xa tiñan toda unha vida aquí. Entón foron a un xuicio onde gañaron as fillas. Os meus bisavós tivéronse que volver enfadados sen elas. En 1992 decidiron volver a España e xubilarse, cando chegaron a casa onde vivía a súa familia tocaron o timbre, de ahí saliu miña nai, e dixólle a miña abuela que había dous persoas que preguntaban por ela. Nada máis velos lanzouse cunha aperta a eles e desde ahí empezaron a levarse ben, e retomaron a súa relación ata o día de hoxe.

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Eduardo Riveiro Landeira is a migrant
 

Sabela Riveiro Dios · 15 enero 2019 17:02


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My grandfather Eduardo went to Switzerland in 1968 when he was 18 years old. He went to look for work because in Galicia there was no job to get money. He decided to go by himself to give the money to his parents. He didn't study. He was alone on the train. He started working on watches and then in a restauraante. He learned Italian, English and German there only listening to other people. In the restaurant he had an accident, he cut his finger. His boss paid him a lot of money and came back to Galicia to mount his restaurant with the money they gave him, which is where he met my grandmother and were married

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En aquella época no había dinero lo cual hizo que mi abuela al poco tiempo de casarse tuviera que emigrar para Alemania con mi abuelo en 1962.
Esto fue algo forzado porque no había dinero ni trabajo ya que de aquella gobernaba Franco.
Allí en Alemania se fueron a Frankfurt donde mi abuela trabajó de limpiadora en una clínica y en más tarde en un aeropuerto.
Volvieron después en 1971 a Orense donde tuvieron a mi padre que se quedaría con sus tíos.
Más tarde mi abuela y mi abuelo volvieron a Alemania, solo volvían en verano para las fiestas del pueblo.
No se quedaron permanentemente en Orense hasta el verano de 1976.
 

Lucía Rodríguez López · 19 enero 2019 12:31


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Dolores López González is a migrant
 

Javier Jesús Chouza Picallo · 19 febrero 2018 18:52


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My great-grandmother Dolores has got only a one movement,but it was long. She lived in Ferrol,she got married to Manuel before the migration. She had a work of seamstress. Her married worked as an accountant.About 1945 Manuel died of a heart attack. Dolores was loneley and in 1950 she lost her work because the factory where she worked closed.She need to migrate to London to get a new work. Later he get a work of a housekeeper. She lived 40 years in London and she imigrated to her country because she retired in London and came to stay with her family. Twenty three years later she died of age.
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