«Ganarse el pan francés». Políticas de inserción y estrategias laborales de las españolas exiliadas en Francia (1936-1940)

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 theur construction of their identity as exiles, but also as workers.