Doctoral Thesis
2018-2019

Walk away. Grenadian migrations to Barcelona during the first Franco regime (1940-1960)

Author: Tudela Vázquez, Enrique

Director: Dra. Cristina Borderías Mondéjar, catedràtica

Director: Dra. Teresa María Ortega López

Barcelona University, 2019

The second chapter is completely framed within the investigated period and deals with the study of the causes of the migratory phenomenon in the postwar period. In this way, we reconstruct the various forms of repression, linked to the establishment of the Franco dictatorship and its relationship with the emigration of Granada workers. Starting from the experience of the return of the Republican ex-combatants, this chapter tries to deepen our understanding of the multiple intra-community fractures that caused the result of the civil war. For its part, the third chapter is also intended to analyze the causes of the emigration of the rural population of Granada, in this case through an analysis of the crisis in the agricultural world and as an effect on the segmented social structure of rural Granada. This chapter deals with the consequences of the failure of the industrialization proposals in Granada. We also analyze how the domestic economies of the Granada peasantry were affected, both in the case of day laborers and farmers, by the implementation of the agrarian policies of the first Franco regime and the interests of the large landowners. The fourth chapter relates the experience of the trip and spatial insertion of the Granada immigrants in Barcelona. This section shows the difficulties that the Grenadines and Grenadians encountered in carrying out their migratory project and what were the settlement patterns that they carried out. We also address an analysis of the anti-immigration discourses that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s and how they affected the implementation of repressive policies against immigration. Given this, we observe the deployment of a wide repertoire of strategies by immigrant people from Granada in order to overcome the limits imposed by the administration, in the complicated context of post-war Barcelona. Finally, the fifth chapter explores the mechanisms of insertion of immigrants in the Barcelona labor market. In its pages we describe the insertion mechanisms and main areas where immigrant workers were located and for what reasons. We also describe how they perceived the reappearance of labor unrest in Catalonia and what reactions they had to it. Finally, we will observe the mechanisms that led to the emergence and transmission of a culture of emigration to Barcelona among Granada society.