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Emigration / Immigration
"We asked for a work force and people came."
(Famous quote from the Swiss writer Max Frisch, 1965)
Immigration is also women’s work. If hundreds of Spanish Conchitas, Socorros and Manuelas left home to “serve France” at the end of the 1960s with the unshakable motto of “save and return”; it is now the turn of Abigail, Jessica or Marianela. Although we seem to have gone back in time, these stories have never stopped occurring.
They all relate the fight required in emigration, daily work, sacrifices, saving money, their constant thoughts of returning… In the case of the Spanish, they were mainly women whose lives, for many years, were reduced to a maid’s room or cramped Parisian caretaker’s quarters. Their stay was supposed to be temporary and so they hardly ever managed or were not allowed to integrate in French society.
By remembering them we get a better understanding of the people who come to our country in the hope of a better life.