Dear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative
dc.contributor.advisor | Weise, Julie | |
dc.contributor.author | Barton, Brenna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-27T16:45:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-27T16:45:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.description | 1 page. | |
dc.description.abstract | Francisco Franco’s regime and the aftermath of World War II marked a period of political repression and economic instability in Spain, causing thousands of Spaniards to migrate in search of freedom and work. Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, hundreds of thousands of Spanish transplants entered France’s labor market, where they were largely exploited due to the language barrier and their immigration status. These migrants also struggled to find community in the French countryside, so they formed their own via a clandestine radio station nicknamed La Pirenaica which transmitted communist and anti-Franco media. Migrants wrote letters to the station expressing political opinions and describing their time in France, many of which were read on air, creating solidarity among the station’s audience in Spain and abroad. This research investigates the migrants’ experience in their own words through the content of these letters. Through the stories in these letters of workplace exploitation, political speech, and the poverty that awaited the Spaniards in France, these migrants formed their own narratives of the decades under Franco’s regime which contradict the official story of prosperity. This research uncovers a perspective on the migrant experience in this era from the perspective of those who lived it. | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5432-4460 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26395 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
dc.subject | migration | en_US |
dc.subject | translation | en_US |
dc.subject | migrant narrative | en_US |
dc.subject | Spain | en_US |
dc.title | Dear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative | |
dc.type | Presentation |