Among the "indésirables": Catalans in French internment camps, 1939

• Autores: Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 25, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Catalan culture and the French camps, 1939: literary and visual representations / guest editor, Marta Marín-Dòmine), págs. 19-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article offers an historical overview of the forced exile produced by the so-called Retirada, a massive flux of Republican soldiers and civilians who escaped the fascist occupation of Franco's troops at the end of January 1939 after their victory over the Republican government in Catalonia. When the French government opened the border at the beginning of February, around 275,000 exiles were placed in internment camps, mostly along France's southeastern coast. This article seeks to provide a general overview of the relatively unknown exile of Spaniards on French soil, while underlying the enlistment of an important number of them in the French resistance movement, as well as giving new insights into the specific destiny of Catalans in the French camps