‘A crowd of starving, desperate people dressed in rags began to walk towards the border. Women, children, old people… […] It was horrible, it was a beaten people, without a horizon. In that moment, I had a breakdown. Everything that I thought my life could have become was vanishing forever’ (Público 12/09/2015). This is the …
Month: October 2016
Galician Slaves in Cuba
As part of my research on the Galicia-New York connection, I’m currently reading about Galician emigration to America in a wider sense. As it is well known, a great number of Galicians relocated to Latin American countries, especially since the nineteenth century. In order to fully understand the role played by of New York in …
On Research Leave!
I’m on research leave from 1st July 2016 until January 2017. It’s the first time in my academic career that I have the opportunity to devote all my time to research. It feels both very exciting and a bit intimidating: will I manage to do all those things that I planned to do, to conduct …
Galician New York: the Project
This project investigates Galician emigration and exile to New York City and its representation in a variety of cultural forms and discourses. Whereas the displacement of Galician population to South America has been the object of extensive research, little attention has been given to the presence of Galicians in New York, although they represented the majority …
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