ABSTRACT
This chapter reconsiders the characteristics of the last migratory flow from Spain to the Southern Cone during the 20th century. The chronological framework includes the reinstatement of intercontinental displacements after World War II, the immigration agreement between Franco’s Spain and Peron’s Argentina, the economic boom period in Brazil at the beginning of the 1950s and the change of direction of migratory flows from 1956 to other overseas destinations such as Venezuela, but above all to Europe. In this context, the chapter addresses the efforts of Latin American governments, and especially Argentina, to attract Spanish immigrants hoping that they would contribute to their development and industrialization. At the same time, it scrutinizes the processes of labor insertion in destination countries from an intersectional approach. Through a transversal analysis of the categories of gender, class, ethnicity, and age, it analyzes testimonies of women immigrants who underwent a different process of integration and experienced challenges that men didn’t have to face in the labor market.
