«Barraques del Río»

Photographer unknown
1946
Gelatine DOP
4x6 cm
CRDI. Fons Francesc Riuró Llapart

In the middle decades of the twentieth century there was a wave of working-class migration from different regions of Spain to Catalonia. The arrival en masse of manual labour for industry and construction, together with the lack of housing at affordable prices, led to the appearance of the first shanty towns in some neighbourhoods of the big cities.