Untold Stories – Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in …

Untold StoriesLegacies of Authoritarianism Among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life\nAuthor(s): David Divita\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487554279, 978-1487554279\nSynopsis\nForgetting about Spains civil war [tel] and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Francos death in 1975. Since the early 2000s, however, public discussion of historical memory has awakened efforts to remember this past through the personal testimonies of Spaniards who experienced it firsthand.\n\n Untold Stories expands accounts of twentieth-century Spain by presenting an ethnography of an ignored population: the impoverished men and women who fled Francos dictatorship in the 1960s, participating in a wave of labour migration to northern Europe. Now in their eighties, they were born around the time of the civil war and came of age during its r.