Movilización Jornalera, Migración y Memoria Autobiográfica: El Itinerario de Imre (Américo) Mikli entre Hungría y Colombia (1951-1962)

Abstract

This is the story of Imre Mikli and his arrival in a new world. The thesis seeks to characterize the post-war and Cold War geopolitical, economic, cultural, and social tensions, through the experiential itinerary of a Hungarian immigrant in his transit between Europe and Colombia. This transit is configured as a physical process, but also an imaginary one between the place of origin and the destination that shaped the identity and perspectives of the young Hungarian Imre Mikli, in his vital transformation to become the Colombian citizen Américo Mikli. The thesis develops a complex exercise of historization through a main source, the autobiography written by Imre Mikli Vig /. in 1997 under the title of El Emigrante, an unpublished document for never having been published, but also for its original conception. At the same time, it develops a set of historical scales between the micro and the macro that aims to make a family document useful, to build and debate the history of transatlantic migrations and their importance in understanding the contemporary configuration of Europe and Colombia.