Roots and Wings: Galician Women in New York from the 1980’s to the Present

• Autores: Mónica Álvarez Estévez
• Localización: Estudios del Observatorio, ISSN 2688-2957, ISSN-e 2688-2930, Nº. 60 (Reshaping Hispanic Cultures: 2019 Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship Vol. I. Ident), 2020, págs. 36-46
• Idioma: español
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  • The invisibility that defines the Spanish immigrant experience in the United States—and particularly of women—remains true when we speak about the migration of Galicians to the country. To delineate a sliver of Galician women’s experience in the United States, this piece provides an overview of the personal networks that these women forged when they arrived and settled in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood in the early and mid-1980s. The work discusses how these Galician women kept alive a traditional Galician society even while recognizing the changing expectations shaping their new community. In addition, this study describes the way in which these networks of female support reconciled the seemingly antithetical traditional Galician and contemporary American identities and promoted a proud sense of female Galician identity both in their homes and in their communities that effectively fused transnational local values.