«Ganarse el pan francés». Employment policies and labour strategies of the Spanish women in exile in France (1936-1940)

  • Rocío Negrete Peña Universidad de Zaragoza
Keywords: Foreign labour force, asylum right, women workers, republican exile, gender perspective

Abstract

Republican exiles to France faced the challenges inherent to all types of migration, such as finding remunerated work. This was one of the main objectives of the French administration as a counterpart to the asylum right. Despite the social, political and gender prejudices towards this foreign labour force, Spanish women also joined the ranks of workers in the context of the last years of the Third French Republic. Their labour insertion in sectors such as agriculture, domestic service or war industry would allow them to occupy a place in the management policies of the Republican exile, proving they were worthy of remaining in the country. Thus, if work facilitated their material installation, on a psychological level it also meant a reaffirmation of their capacity of agency and their construction of their identity as exiles, but also as workers.

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Published
2025-06-24
How to Cite
Negrete Peña . R. (2025). «Ganarse el pan francés». Employment policies and labour strategies of the Spanish women in exile in France (1936-1940). Historia y Política, 53, 265-294. https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.2025.AL.04