Los frutos de la movilidad. La emigración norteña peninsular en Madrid y el Imperio (siglos XVII y XVIII)

Abstract

The 1700s saw the historical and popular impact of the strong migratory process of northern young men who searched for a future. All of them were northern “hidalgos” who protect their juridical idiosyncrasy together with the interests of the authorities of their original countries. Many of them got it without the help of migratory chains or old patronage networks. Madrid, Cadiz or Mexico saw the emergence of centres where emigrants were helped taking in account their origin and nature. Hospitals, brotherhoods and congregations were the three associative prototypes of this northern migratory flow. Such mobility and the emergence of these “emotional communities” (into the political, cultural, administrative and economic centres of the Spanish Empire) were concentrated during the reigns of Philip V and Ferdinand VI. These employment agencies and political and cultural representation spaces show the organization conferred by the authorities of the northern Spain in order to cope with some of the dangers resulting from the migratory process of their young men.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ohm.24.2708