Newsletter of the Amical of the former Spanish Guerrillas in France , no5 , November 1977 , p . 4 . end of the war triggered an unprecedented exodus of half a million people from almost the entire Spanish mainland to the French border . According to different sources analysed – among others , by Maëlle Maugendre and Alba Martínez – it is estimated that there were between 90,000 and 95,000 women among them at the height of the exodus . But this collection of testimonies also represents other migratory trajectories . In fact , in addition to the relationship between exile and the Resistance , there are the accounts of Spanish people from previous waves of migration , especially as labourers during and after the war of 1914-1918 . The subsequent participation in Resistance networks and activities of women such as Carmen Asensi , Sabina González and Jesusa Bermejo is evidence of the importance of the construction of transnational networks and support for the Republican cause during the civil war and the attention given to the refugee population by the Spanish community in France .
Thus , the involvement of Spanish people in the Resistance can only be studied from the general perspective of the social and political movements of the 1930s and 1940s , and on a transnational scale . Even across the border , the exiled community in France never ceased to view the Spanish Republic as the ultimate objective : the memory of a stolen dream and the desire to return to Spain to re-establish it . But in the meantime , their lives were marked by the urgency of everyday life , the challenges of adjusting to life in France , the challenges of reuniting separated families , the desire to get out of refugee camps or concentration camps , the need to find work , dealing with health problems and maternity issues in exile . The most recent works on Spanish Republican exile from a gender perspective have highlighted the importance of this everyday dimension , its implications in research and , in this case , also its relationship with other issues of political history , such as the Resistance . The account overview
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