Dear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative

dc.contributor.advisorWeise, Julie
dc.contributor.authorBarton, Brenna
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-27T16:45:56Z
dc.date.available2021-07-27T16:45:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description1 page.
dc.description.abstractFrancisco 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.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5432-4460
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26395
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjecttranslationen_US
dc.subjectmigrant narrativeen_US
dc.subjectSpainen_US
dc.titleDear Comrades: Analyzing Letters to La Pirenaica as Migrant Narrative
dc.typePresentation

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