Muitas américas: padrões de migração transatlântica e escolha do destino no sul de portugal (séculos XIX e XX)

• Main Author: Marcelo J. Borges
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação de Actividades Científicas 2009-05-01
• Series: Ler História
• Subjects: transatlantic migration; destination selection; Algarve
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/1957

This article combines regional and local perspectives to analyze the factors that influenced the selection of destinations among transatlantic migrants from the Algarve, in southern Portugal. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the majority of migrants from Algarve left for Argentina. However, a closer look at the intra-regional variations reveals a more complex pattern. The article makes a comparison among the migration flows to Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. The Algarve case shows that migrants’ choice of destination was influenced by a combination of micro and macro factors, including socio-demographic characteristics, local origin, social and occupational networks, labor markets, and migration policies.