The third vertex of the Latinx triangle: Latin America and the repopulation of rural Spain

IF 0.5 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY CULTURAL DYNAMICS Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI:10.1177/09213740231223818
Raquel Vega-Durán
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In the 1980s, a significant number of Latin Americans began moving to urban centers in the Iberian peninsula. These arrivals grew exponentially. By 2022, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela each had more than 100,000 citizens in Spain. While cities have been the most visible poles of attraction for Latin American immigration, small towns have also witnessed the arrival of Latin Americans. Rural Spain, commonly known as “empty Spain,” had been shrinking and waning in silence for decades, due to an aging population and the migration of young adults to the cities. In 2021 Spain’s central government started to speak of migration as a solution for depopulation, but this proposal’s origins date further back. In 2000 the local government of Aguaviva, a small town in Teruel, decided to bring back life to “empty Spain” by inviting Argentinian families to settle there in exchange for employment and housing. Since then, many more towns have followed suit. The documentary Aguaviva: La vida en tres maletas (2004, “Aguaviva: Life in Three Suitcases”), directed by Verónica Marchiaro and Mario Burbano, offers the story of this first rural repopulation. A close look at the diverse lived experiences portrayed in the documentary, and its different points of views on hospitality, can help guide current conversations on repopulation.
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拉美三角的第三个顶点:拉丁美洲和西班牙农村人口的重新聚集
20 世纪 80 年代,大量拉丁美洲人开始移居伊比利亚半岛的城市中心。这些移民呈指数增长。到 2022 年,阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴西、哥伦比亚、古巴、厄瓜多尔、洪都拉斯、巴拉圭、秘鲁、多米尼加共和国和委内瑞拉在西班牙的公民人数均超过 10 万。虽然城市是吸引拉美移民的最显著地点,但小城镇也见证了拉美人的到来。几十年来,由于人口老龄化和青壮年向城市迁移,西班牙农村(俗称 "空壳西班牙")一直在默默地萎缩和减少。2021 年,西班牙中央政府开始将移民作为解决人口减少问题的办法,但这一建议的起源要追溯到更早的时候。2000 年,特鲁埃尔的一个小镇阿瓜维瓦(Aguaviva)的地方政府决定邀请阿根廷家庭到当地定居,以换取就业和住房,从而让 "空虚的西班牙 "重现生机。此后,更多的小镇纷纷效仿。纪录片《阿瓜维瓦:由 Verónica Marchiaro 和 Mario Burbano 执导的纪录片《阿瓜维瓦:三个手提箱里的生活》(2004 年,"Aguaviva: Life in Three Suitcases")讲述了第一个农村人口重新聚集的故事。仔细观察这部纪录片中描绘的各种生活经历,以及其中关于热情好客的不同观点,有助于指导当前关于人口重新聚居的对话。
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