Galician Migrations: A Case Study of Emerging Super-diversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. From a Land of Emigrants to a Land of Immigrants? The Complex Realities Behind a Common Perception

   • Carmen Lamela

   Pages 1-12

3. Galicians Abroad

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Role of Galician Centers in the Promotion of Galician Culture Abroad

      • Ruy Farías

      Pages 15-25

   3. ‘Cando chegamos ô Unai Estei’ (When We Arrived in the USA): Literary Representations of Galician Migration to New York in the First Half of the 20th Century

      • David Miranda-Barreiro

      Pages 27-38

   4. The Ties and Emotions of Emigration: An Analysis of Personal Correspondence

      • María Liliana Da Orden

      Pages 39-50

   5. Galician Political Refugees in Portugal During the Civil War and Post-Civil War Era (1936–1945)

      • Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo

      Pages 51-62

   6. A Theme Park in Early twentieth Century Galicia: A Case Study on the Globalized Visions of “Indianos”

      • Jose María Cardesín Díaz

      Pages 63-79

   7. The Grandchildren of Galicia: Lived and Imagined Citizenship

      • Montserrat Golías

      Pages 81-92

   8. The Galician Diaspora in the Twenty-First Century: Demographic Renovation as a Response to the Economic Crisis

      • Andreu Domingo, Amand Blanes

      Pages 93-111

4. Strangers Among us

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Migratory Trends and Their Relation to Specific Policy Regarding Migrations in Galicia

      • Belén Fernández-Suárez

      Pages 115-127

   3. The Changing Role of Women in Transnational Families Living in Senegal and Galicia

      • Iria Vázquez Silva

      Pages 129-140

   4. “It’s a Better Life Here”: Romanian Roma Perceptions of Successful Integration

      • Belén Arranz

      Pages 141-152

   5. The Muslim Minority in Galicia: Trajectory and Demands

      • Adrián Mandado Cendón

      Pages 153-164

   6. Gendered Mobility Strategies, Labour Market in a Context of Economic Crisis in Galicia

      • Laura Oso, Raquel Martínez-Buján

      Pages 165-178

   7. School, Family and Migrations: Toward an Understanding of Differential (de)Construction of Gender Identities

      • Belén García-Cabeza, Jaime A. García-Serna

      Pages 179-191

   8. Cape Verdeans in Burela: Women’s Empowerment Through Gendered Cultural Practices

      • Luzia Oca González

      Pages 193-206

5. Forging the New, Multicultural Galicia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Participatory Citizenship Initiatives as a Crucial Factor for Social Cohesion

      • Verónica Verdía Varela

      Pages 209-221

This focused case study analyses the roots of super-diversity in a place where immigration is an emerging phenomenon, Northwestern Spain (Galicia). It is characterized by a mostly rural population, an aging demographic, and a historically depressed economy. Yet the region has recently experienced a significant increase in immigration - a reversal of the region’s historically pronounced trend of emigration. 


To understand immigration in its early stages, this book takes a historical approach that focuses on diversities that go beyond nationality. It explores local yet international phenomena such as different patterns of return migration, transnational community and familial relationships, and niche labour markets. 


The book takes a broad interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, anthropology, history, sociolinguistics, literature, and education, to provide a detailed case study analysis. While the case is specific, many other geographic regions will share some of the factors the book explores. Understanding how these factors interact will provide a useful point of contrast for analysing them in a range of other international contexts.
     

   

• Migration
• Super-diversity
• Transnationality
• Intercultural relations
• Integration

• Faculty of Education, University of A Coruna , A Coruna (Galicia), Spain

  Renée DePalma

• Faculty of Sociology, ESOMI (Research Group on the Sociology of International Migrations) , University of A Coruna, A Coruna, (Galicia), Spain

  Antía Pérez-Caramés

Renée received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Delaware (USA), where she helped to establish La Red Mágica, a community-university collaborative project which aims to promote intercultural relationships between university students and minority children in an urban community center. From 2006-2009 she was Senior Researcher on the UK-based No Outsiders project, an action research project investigating approaches to address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in primary schools. She held a Research Fellowship (Isidro Parga Pondal) at the University of Vigo (Spain) from December 2009 to September 2010, and has been a member of the Faculty of Education Sciences at UDC since September 2010. She is currently directing a research project investigating understandings and practices regarding integration of immigrants in Galicia (2014-2017, funded by the Xunta de Galicia).
Her research and teaching has focused on equalities and social justice in terms of race, ethnicity, language, sexuality and gender. She is mainly interested in the social construction of marginalization within and beyond schools, ways in which success and failure are co-constructed in institutional settings, and the design of counter-hegemonic institutional contexts and classroom practices.

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