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DESCRIPTION:Throughout the early modern era\, female migration from Spain t
 o its colonies in the Americas\, Europe and the Pacific remained numerical
 ly marginal\, constituting less than a tenth of long-distance flows. Nonet
 heless\, as commonplace narratives suggest\, migrating Spanish women posse
 ssed a prominent social role in securing European families’ elevated soc
 ial-legal status in the racialized colonial hierarchy\, and advanced trans
 atlantic business interests through marriage into urban elites. \n\nThis p
 aper examines female transatlantic migration from a macro-historical persp
 ective\, asking what factors created obstacles or facilitated access to mi
 gration flows. I argue that the elite-family model is inadequate\, as wome
 n of lower status could gain access to long-distance migration and even mo
 ve outside the purview of patriarchal controls\, depending though on circu
 mstances on both sides of the Atlantic. Women (and men) of humble origins 
 could access such destinations as Buenos Aires\, where racial-economic ine
 qualities were less entrenched than in Mexico City\, an urban center heavi
 ly based on indigenous labor. From the Spanish side\, in regions as Galici
 a women of humble origins could engage in migration networks connected via
  peninsular ports to the New World\, thus moving independently of elite fa
 mily networks. \n\nI examine both sides of the Atlantic\, looking at diffe
 rences in gendered economic and familial roles across regions of origins i
 n Spain\, and between the race and class makeup of colonial cities. Furthe
 rmore\, I look at changes in gendered migration in the post-colonial trans
 ition of the early nineteenth century – an era of haphazard political mo
 dernization despite the persistence of racial and economic structures.\n\n
 I employ large datasets of female and male migrants collected from church 
 records and censuses from archives on both sides of the Atlantic. I use Sp
 atial analysis (GIS) to analyze migration networks connecting Spanish regi
 ons to urban destinations in the New World.
DTSTAMP:20260412T140056Z
LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Migrating women in the Spanish Atlantic: Obstacles and Access durin
 g the post-colonial transition (c. 1750-1850) - Hillel Eyal
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/PZP9U8/
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