'Los Jumillanos Ausentes'. Emigración en Jumilla en las décadas de los años ‘60-’70

In the 1960s-1970s, Jumilla, like other cities in the Region of Murcia, lost a large part of its population, around 20% as a consequence of the emigration produced during these decades. The purpose of our investigation is to know in more detail the emigration that took place during the 1960s-1970s in this municipality. The main objective set to carry out our research is to determine the profile of the Jumillan emigrant at that time and analyze the effects of emigration on the living standards and quality of life of these people. For the methodology of our project, a survey was designed with the Google Forms platform. This survey would be carried out in the form of a personal interview with people from Jumilla that emigrated during the aforementioned decades, both inside and outside of Spain. Once the interviews with the Jumillan emigrants were carried out, we went on to analyze the results, from which we were able to establish our conclusions about the research project: first, we highlight that the emigrant in Jumilla in the 60’s and 70’s was mainly a young man and that he was emigrating for economic or labor reasons; secondly, most emigrants claim to have improved their economic situation with emigration; and finally, all migrants currently living in a different place claim to maintain ties to Jumilla, whether family, economic or cultural.