‘Little Spain’ or ‘Little Galicia’? Cinematic Representations of Galician Migration to New York and New Jersey

This article looks at three cinematic representations of the Galician migrant community in the United States: the documentaries Os 15000 de Newark (2007) and Little Spain (2014), and the feature-length film Little Galicia (2015). The analysis of these films focuses especially on the influence that their chosen framing (Ellies 2012) has on the migrants’ performance of their cultural identity. By assessing the performative aspect of identity (Schechner 2013), this article also examines the possibility of considering Galicianness as a transnational positioning, globally or glocally performed, rather than a geographically fixed essence.