Crisis familiares y migraciones en la Galicia del siglo XVIII desde una perspectiva de género

Abstract

This paper studies the problem of the relationship between crisis and migrations from the women's point of view. This reflection is done using the information available to Galicia in the 18th Century. This territory was characterized by intense male migration, with two variants: seasonal or short-term migration to Castile and the multiyear or medium-term to Portugal and Andalusia. In order to study its impact on women, this paper is divided into two parts: a) firstly, the focus is on family crisis that caused whether the death of the absentee husband or the voluntary abandonment of the family, and proposing the different choices; b) secondly, the aim is to study those single women who were in the need to migrate in order to solve their personal crisis, that is to say, those times when they had to make a decision to solve their own future.