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Expectations unfulfilled : Norwegian migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
Title
Expectations unfulfilled : Norwegian migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940 / edited by Steinar A. Sæther.
ISBN
9789004307384
9004307389
9789004307391
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Physical Description
xi, 267 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"In Expectations Unfulfilled : Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940 scholars from Europe and Latin America study the experiences of workers, sailors, whalers, landowners, intellectuals and investors who migrated from Norway to Latin America during the age of mass migration. One recurrent theme is the absence of a large migratory stream from Norway to Latin America. In relative terms, Norwegian emigration was among the highest in Europe. Latin America was one of the principal receivers of migrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why, then, did so few Norwegians end up in Latin America? Combining different levels of analysis, the authors explain how Norwegians experienced Latin America, and how their experiences were communicated to potential migrants at home. Contributors are: María Alvarez Solar, Cecilia Alvstad, María Bjerg, Mieke Neyens, Synnøve Ones Rosales, Ricardo Pérez Montfort, Steinar A. Sæther and Ellen Woortmann"--Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Expectations unfulfilled Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2016
Series
Studies in global social history, volume 24
Studies in global migration history ; volume 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Steinar A. Scether
Making sense of a minor migrant stream / Steinar A. Scether
From adventurers to settlers : Norwegians in southern Brazil / Ellen F. Woortmann
Migrants on skis : Norwegian-Latin American return migration in the 1890s / Cecilia Alvstad
The good, the bad and the rational : desirable and undesirable migration to Cuba and Mexico (1907-1909) / Mieke Neyens
Opportunities for the few and select : Norwegians in Guatemala (1900-1940) / Synnove Ones Rosales
Male narratives from the margins of the country of immigrants : two Norwegians in Argentina in the 1920s / Maria Bjerg
Three Norwegian experiences in post-revolutionary Mexico : Per Imerslund, Halfdan Jebe and Ola Apenes / Ricardo Perez Monifort
The Blikstad family : saga of emigrants in Norway, Spain, and Brazil / Maria Alvarez-Solar.
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