Mobility of ‘the defeated’: internal migration and social advancement in a post-civil war society |
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Authors: | Inbal Ofer |
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Institution: | Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel, Kfar Sava, Israel |
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Abstract: | The article examines the relationship between the movement across space and social mobility by analyzing the conditions for internal migration in Spain during the years of the Franco regime. Specifically it reflects on the ways in which migration from the countryside into self-constructed shantytowns in the greater Madrid area was perceived by migrants themselves, and on the strategies that enabled migration to be carried through. By focusing on the challenges that internal migration posed to the spatial practices and mobility regimes of the dictatorship, the article also explores the relationship between spatial movement, social mobility and political repression within the context of a nationalist dictatorship. |
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Keywords: | Spain spatial movement mobility internal migration Franco regime shantytowns Orcasitas |
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