Immigration and Catalan Politics under the Second Republic

Authors

  • Albert Balcells

Keywords:

Catalonia, Second Spanish Republic, migration, workers’ movement, electoral behaviour

Abstract

In the first half of the 1930s, concerns over migration and its effects on the future of Catalonia as a nation deepened. This was motivated by an outgrowth of increasing unemployment, rising crime rates and a resurgence of gun-law involving armed thugs, together with anarchist hegemony in the workers’ movement and three failed attempts at revolution in the first two years of the Second Spanish Republic. This paper also looks at the relationship between migration and electoral behaviour.

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No. 18 (2015): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 18.

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