Francesc Macià en la prensa argentina : el asociacionismo catalanista porteño y la gestión del apoyo a la causa del independentismo catalán en “Crítica”

Abstract

Our contribution studies the way in which the exile of the Catalan politician Francesc Macià in Buenos Aires, in 1928, was handled in the Argentine press by a sector of the local Catalan community. The legal situation of Macià will allow us to study social and cultural aspects of a little analyzed chapter of the peninsular associationism in Argentina based on the experience of the Catalan pro-independence exile prior to the Spanish Civil War. We will thus contribute to the knowledge of the identities, roles and institutions that marked the relations and contacts among the contingent of exiles with their homeland, and the problems of their host society.