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Candy Sóñora Bustelo is a migrant
 

Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 18 enero 2018 17:09


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My mother grew up, in Teaio, a small village in Dodro. When she was an adult, she came to Bertamirans, with my father Marcos. In 2004 she had a baby, it was me. a year later, she went to Madrid to study, and she came here again in 2005. then, my father and she, had another baby who is my brother. Later,she and us, came to a house they bought in Bertamirans. Now, she is living in a house there with us. Three years ago, she went to a school where people study to be chefs, and she finished the Master last year in Christmas when I finished the first term in school.

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Ramón is a migrant
 

Carla Redondo Porto · 15 enero 2018 21:02


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Ramón grew up in Bastavales and his first job was in Vilagarcía as a serigraphist in a canning factory in 1963. In May 1966 he requested some vacations at the company to go with his cousin to visit his uncle who lived in Amsterdam, Holland. In the beginning it went with a tourist purpose but in a short time it found a good job with an unbeatable conditions in a blast furnace factory in Beverwÿk next to a canal. He decided to stay and bring his wife with him and she would work in his same company. They had 2 children and after a few years his wife fell ill and returned to Galicia with his children where he died in 1982. Ramón asked for a year's leave of absence in the company to organize your family life. He left his mother-in-law to his two sons here in Galicia and he returned back to Holland. For a time he lived on a ship of World War II (similar to the Titanic according to him) that the company owned as it was located next to a canal. On the boat they housed some of their employees. Later he moved to a flat in the city of Beverwÿk and there he spent the rest of his life in Holland. His mother-in-law died and he returned in 2000 to take care of his children. He currently lives in Trasmonte, Ames with his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren

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Marta Lois é unha persoa migrante

 

Mauro Lois Pardo · 17 noviembre 2022 22:29


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Miña tía Marta naceu no1975 en Pontevedra, (Pontevedra)
No 1997 migrou a Shefield na Gran Bretaña, co grupo de Erasmus da facultade de Traducción e interpretación de Vigo. Aquí conviviu con xente de moitos lugares do mundo.
En 1998 voltou a Pontevedra para rematar a carreira de piano que comenzou no instituo e parou no curo que estivo no estranxeiro
No1999 rematada a carreira de música voltou a Londres, onde vivia tamén meu tio Lee. Foi traballar na BBC en Londres onde coñeceu moito tipo de persoas.
Despoisda BBC comenzou traballar na empres de videojuegos SEGA onde chegou a directora da mutinacional
Casou con Lee que é inglés e teñen un fillo, meu curmán Tomás, que é inglés e español.
Cando teñen vacación veñen moitas veces a Pontevedra e a miña casa. Falan todos varios idiomas e gustan moito de viaxar e coñecer sitios e a historias dos lugares. A min tamén me gusta moito facer estas cousas con eles.

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Franisco Javier Vilares Cardama is a migrant.
 

Daniel Vilares Pouso · 22 enero 2019 17:11


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Mi padre era un hombre joven, que vivía en Santiago de Compostela, de apenas 20 años, un día conoció a una chica de 18 años, que vivía en Noya y se llama María Alesandra, que ahora es mi madre, se fueron conociendo y no paraban de hablarse, hasta que un día, un poco más formado, con 24 años decidió dar el paso de casarse e irse a vivir con mi madre, que tenía 22, se fueron a vivir a Bertamiráns, 5 años más tarde me tuvieron a mí, Daniel y a mi hermana Candela, estoy muy orgulloso de ellos, ojalá todo el mundo fuese como ellos.

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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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