La emigración española a Buenos Aires : el problema de la escala de análisis

• Main Author: Nadia De Cristóforis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2012-10-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: Spanish migrations; Scales of analysis; Galicia; Argentina; Municipal approach.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/64234

In the last decades, the historiography about international migrations has employed different analysis scales (regional, municipal or local), in order to overcome the limitations of national frameworks. In the studies about Spanish migrations, the regional approach gained an unexpected weight. Its application, in some cases in an uncritical way, led to a group of problems, on which researchers have not reflected enough yet. In this work we will try to make clear the relative or objected pertinence of the regional scale in the exam of the Spanish migrations abroad. We will take a particular case : the Galician emigration to Argentina during the mid 20th century. We will set off the specificities of the fluxes of that origin at a municipal level and at a socio-demographical point of view.