This book examines the diverse forms of interaction and cultural transfers between the Galician communities in Argentina and Cuba, and the socio-political movements that developed in northwest Spain during the first half of the twentieth century. On the eve of the First World War, Buenos Aires and Havana boasted the two largest urban communities of Iberian Galicians in the world, making these cities a core of Galician politics and culture within the diaspora community in Latin America.

This book demonstrates how the networks of Galician local associations in Buenos Aires and Havana influenced the development of social mobilisation in their home country. It combines micro-historical and local perspectives with transnational and global history approaches, offering insights into the day-to-day workings of diasporic communities, as well as their interactions and entanglements with their counties of origin. Offering the first book-length study of Galician migration, this work advances research in migration history and contemporary diasporic studies against the broader context of other migrant communities in Latin America.

Xosé M. Nuñez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Between 2012 and 2017, he was Full Professor of Modern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Bielefeld, Freiburg, Paris X, Paris VII, Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Rennes, Verona, City University of New York and Stanford University, as well as a recurrent visiting professor at the College of Europe (Warsaw). His work focuses on comparative history of nationalist movements and national and regional identities in Europe, as well as on the analysis of overseas migration from Spain and Galicia to Latin America, and the study of modern war and war experiences in the twentieth century, focusing on the Eastern front during the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War.