We Are All Migrants - KaleidoScapes

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my father was born in Ferrol, exactly in a town called Valdoviño, that town is next to the sea. When he was little, he likes rock-heavy metal music. When he was 15 years old, he started playing rock music with his friends.When he was 17-18 years old, he went to play in a group in Lugo, this trip would say it was a social migration, when some friends of him went to study in Santiago, he went to work with them. then he joined a group with which he won many awards, including the best musical group in A Coruña and the fourth best in Galicia, this is an economic migration. In that year, he met my mother, whose name is Beatriz. when they got married they thought where they could live, a quiet place, where they could work, this is an economic migration. Today he continues to live in Bertamirans with my mother and me.

Antón Martínez Núñez · 29 enero 2019 17:58

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Claudia is a migrant

Adriana Cifuentes Zamalloa · 19 enero 2018 20:01

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Claudia was born on 2 September 1996 in Madrid, Spain. She lived there for 2 years. Then she and my fathers migrated to galicia, ames because they didn´t like live in a city. When Claudia was 17 she went to a institute of Santiago de Compostela and she made pendular migration every week.
When she finished, she went to Barcelona to study medicine in a good university. She studied for 2 years and she decided move to Portugal, Lisbon because she love see another countrys and places. Now she lives there.

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Suso Rivas is a migrant.

Rebeca Rivas Gómez · 19 enero 2018 19:37

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When Suso and Rosa were young they lived in Galicia. In 1990 they got married because they were in love. In this day they travelled to Catalonia to found job and to know other places . They stayed there ten years . In this time they tried to speak catalan but the people didn´t understand them. They lived in a apartament in Mataró, people called them the galicians. Suso needed to go every day to Barcelona because he worked there while Rosa worked in a factory. In 1999 Abel was born. In the next year they came back to Galicia (Noia) because they had relatives there and they missed Galicia. When they lived in a flat of Noia Suso went to Santiago every day to work . But they don´t like the environment and the architecture and in 2003 they left the flat and made a house in a village of Ames, Reino. Now Rosa and Suso has another child, Rebeca.

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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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José Cougil is a migrant

Xiana Souto Picos · 19 enero 2018 17:00

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José moved to Zürich when he was 9 years. He moved to Zürich by train and the journey took about one day. His parents were working in a hotel.
José started to go to a public school. He remembered that in PE was the first time that he saw a lot of football balls. He learned Züridütschan and German. José speak a beat of Italian too. He said there was one teacher who speaks Spanish and helped him with the language. In Switzerland children don´t start reading before 7 years.
He told us that people in this city were very polite with migrants.
There were differences between the migrants and the native people Straße of Zürich

When he was a child he was amazing because there were a lot of cars, especially Mercedes
He lived in an apartment with his two siblings and with his dad and mum. He did karate and he showed us a certificate of his lessons.
José at the age of ten was always riding to the train station. There he only saw Galician people and he was surprised about it. He recalled that all of these migrants had a sticker on their jackets which indicates the factory that they were going to work.
When he was sixteen years old he decided to become a mechanic. Also he had experience with electrician and carpenter. He studied mechanical for four years and then he did so many courses.
He worked in a petrol station, in the Volkswagen factory but at the age of 29 he owned an auto repair shop.
Later he moved to Galicia to bring some cars for here. He came 1 week here and another week in his garage.
One day he had an accident when he was bringing cars to Bertamiráns so he make a house in this place to start here a new life.
Nowadays he goes to Zürich to visit some friends and he knows about his garage. He knows that was closed short time but now is reopened.
He felt happy to have lived in Switzerland and showed us his grateful to the Swiss people for his kidness.

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