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Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed Behind: Explaining Emigration from the Regions of Spain, 1880–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Blanca Sànchez-Alonso
Blanca Sànchez-Alonso
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Associate Professor of Economic History, Universidad San Pablo, Dpto. de Economla, Julián Romea, 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: blanca@ceu.es.
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Abstract

Spain's contribution to the “New Emigration” differed from that of other Southern European countries in that it was oriented to Latin America far more than to the United States, in that it reached massive proportions only after 1900, and in that the various Spanish provinces varied greatly in their emigration rates. Differences in wealth, income, literacy, urbanization, and migratoly tradition best explain these international and interprovincial differences.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 730 - 755
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2000

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