A methodological approach to the Spanish Republican Exiles Return

Abstract

This paper examines the strategies that first generation exiled republicans selected to repatriate to Spain after the end of the Spanish Civil War. It assorts the types of returns that took place between 1939 to 2010, analyzing the repatriation strategies and noting the challenges they navigated. The data is from two sets of databases compiled via scholarly work and a social media survey filled out by the descendants. It concludes with nine types of returns and their corresponding strategies.