Migraciones y exilios en la Historia Reciente de Argentina: una Interpretación a la luz de la teoría de Espacios Transnacionales

Abstract

International migration processes challenge the national perspective of history writing, because they affect both the society of origin and the one of destination and, therefore, we might have to take into account both realities to understand them in its complexity. This article makes use of the theory of transnational social spaces to reread the studies that approaches the migration flows between Argentina and Spain: in direction South-North, the recent Argentine economic migration and the Argentine exile of 1976; in direction North-South, the Spanish mass migration (1980-1930), the selective one of the republican exile and the late migration (1946-1960); and, in both directions, the return migrations. Although none of the revised investigations uses the approach of transnational spaces, they point out to relevant elements that allow understanding the configuration of a Spanish-Argentine or Argentine-Spanish space as result of a historical process in which migration interchanges occupy a relevant place. It finishes with a reflection on the recent Argentine history in relation with the studies on migrations and exiles.