The Spanish postwar emigration to the Southern Cone (1946-1960) Reinterpretations from the perspective of gender and labor insertion

This chapter reconsiders the characteristics of the last migratory flow from Spain to the Southern Cone during the 20th century. The chronological framework includes the reinstatement of intercontinental displacements after World War II, the immigration agreement between Franco's Spain and Pero...

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Published inMigration and Development in Southern Europe and South America pp. 103 - 115
Main Author Martínez, Bárbara Ortuño
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2022
Edition1
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Greater Buenos Aires
Married Women
Franco Dictatorship
West Germany
Comodoro Rivadavia
Migratory Chains
Spanish Community
Brazilian Government
Postwar Immigrants
Insufficient Financial Means
Bilateral Migration Agreement
Migratory Wave
Estado Novo Regime
Labor Insertion
Peronist Government
Migratory Agreements
Galician Immigration
Republican Exiles
Spanish Immigrants
Buenos Aires
Southern Cone
Invitation Letter
Post-war Immigrants
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Summary:This chapter reconsiders the characteristics of the last migratory flow from Spain to the Southern Cone during the 20th century. The chronological framework includes the reinstatement of intercontinental displacements after World War II, the immigration agreement between Franco's Spain and Peron's Argentina, the economic boom period in Brazil at the beginning of the 1950s and the change of direction of migratory flows from 1956 to other overseas destinations such as Venezuela, but above all to Europe. In this context, the chapter addresses the efforts of Latin American governments, and especially Argentina, to attract Spanish immigrants hoping that they would contribute to their development and industrialization. At the same time, it scrutinizes the processes of labor insertion in destination countries from an intersectional approach. Through a transversal analysis of the categories of gender, class, ethnicity, and age, it analyzes testimonies of women immigrants who underwent a different process of integration and experienced challenges that men didn't have to face in the labor market.
DOI:10.4324/9781003250401-10