Cultural resistance of the galician community from Venezuela

Abstract

Galicia is a region located to the northwest of Spain, from there they migrated to Venezuela because of de Spanish Civil War and the postwar period, a group of people looking for a better destination. This research, which continues in a larger process, was approached with a qualitative, ethnographic and autobiographical look, and seeks to interpret and understand from de voice of social actors, the process of construction of meanings that emerge from the identity fabric of the Galician-Venezuelan Binationalbicultural community that resides in Caracas. Thanks to the construction of symbolic spaces (PÉREZ, 2003), its culture, its language was maintained through association houses, radio programs, publications, folkloric and sports groups led by Galleguismo, building a collective memory, (HALBWACHS, 1976) and a cultural resistance, (DÍAZ, 1999), since the dictatorship sought to unify Spain to the detriment of the identity of the communities now called autonomous.