Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations
Whether for ideological or material circumstances, migration was a defining experience for twentieth-century Spain. While studies have focused on the experiences, issues and challenges of migrants in the various host countries, there is a lacuna in our understanding of return migration to Spain. Thi...
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| description | Whether for ideological or material circumstances, migration was a defining experience for twentieth-century Spain. While studies have focused on the experiences, issues and challenges of migrants in the various host countries, there is a lacuna in our understanding of return migration to Spain. This article stems from a pilot project on the return migration to Spain of exiles and other migrants to from the 1950s to the 1990s and seeks to understand the motivations, experiences and memories of return. The aims of this article are: firstly to explore return migration as a plural phenomenon, secondly to call into question the view that the desire but inability to return resulted in a paralysing form of nostalgia; and thirdly to shift attention away from a tendency of public discourses to eulogise the memory of ‘integration’ by focusing on a less publicised phase of the migration cycle. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7e51a3483d79494086f5baad3e441caa2025-01-09T15:42:46ZengUMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)Les Cahiers de Framespa1760-47612010-05-01510.4000/framespa.92Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observationsAlicia Pozo-GutierrezScott SooWhether for ideological or material circumstances, migration was a defining experience for twentieth-century Spain. While studies have focused on the experiences, issues and challenges of migrants in the various host countries, there is a lacuna in our understanding of return migration to Spain. This article stems from a pilot project on the return migration to Spain of exiles and other migrants to from the 1950s to the 1990s and seeks to understand the motivations, experiences and memories of return. The aims of this article are: firstly to explore return migration as a plural phenomenon, secondly to call into question the view that the desire but inability to return resulted in a paralysing form of nostalgia; and thirdly to shift attention away from a tendency of public discourses to eulogise the memory of ‘integration’ by focusing on a less publicised phase of the migration cycle.https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/92 |
| spellingShingle | Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez Scott Soo Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations Les Cahiers de Framespa |
| title | Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations |
| title_full | Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations |
| title_fullStr | Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations |
| title_short | Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations |
| title_sort | categories of return among spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s 1990s hypotheses and early observations |
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