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Presentación. Experiencias migratorias en el Caribe, siglos XVII-XX

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Scots in the Caribbean, XVII and XVIII Centuries: From Servants and Survivors to Qualified Migrants and Land Owners

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, several Scots migrated to the Caribbean. This article addresses these migrations, highlighting their specificities in regard to causes and circumstances that motivated them, as well as the dates and places of arrival, whether in passing through or settling in the region. It reflects on the social interaction between English colonists and Scottish immigrants, and among these and other social groups. It refers to the treatment they received as indentured servants on the plantations, highlighting temporal variations, as well as those situations that were different for them, depending on skin color, religion, belonging to the British Empire, schooling or other factors. It also inquiries about the social mobility that, in general terms, the Scots achieved in the Great Caribbean, converting, in less than two centuries, from servants and survivors of failure, to qualified immigrants and landowners.

An approach to the introduction of slaves to Campeche through Asiento de Negros of England (1713-1739)

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These lines address the participation of Campeche in the Asiento de Negros granted to England by Spain from 1713 to 1739. The legal introduction of enslaved people through the port of Campeche had its highest rate during the first half of the 18th century due to the indicated Asiento. Despite the fact that Campeche was not considered among the points for the factories of arrival and sale within the Treaty of 1713. The forest interest and the commercial expansion of the English included the Yucatan territory, and they established a “factory” in Campeche, which they subleased to other settled merchants in Jamaica. Despite the discontent of Spain, the “factory” was made “official” with the nomination of a Spanish authority to supervise it. The consulted historical archives and the previous investigations confirm that during the two decades of that Asiento in Campeche, the legal forced migration amounted to more than 800 enslaved people.

Catalan Migrants in the Timber Trade from Laguna de Términos (Late 18th Century-19th Century)

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With the opening of the ports to Atlantic trade, the possibility of Campeche trading with Barcelona and other points along the Catalan coast was expanded. Between 1784 and 1796, Barcelona was the second port —after Cadiz— to receive logwood from Campeche, Veracruz and Havana. This prompted the arrival of migrants from Catalan coastal towns who entered the booming forestry extractive economy in that period in the basin of Laguna de Términos (Carmen district, Campeche). Unlike those who returned and invested their fortunes in their territories of origin —the Indianos—, the presence of Catalans who stayed in Campeche and became part of the elite, settling in both Villa del Carmen and San Francisco de Campeche, is notorious. This article aims to investigate the trajectories and strategies of this migratory group, as well as its presence in the conformation of regional colonial imaginaries.

Immigration and Sectoral Inbreeding. The Commercial Strengthening in Campeche and Merida During the Bourbon Free Trade

2023-12-05T15:27:36-06:00

This article analyzes the influence of several immigrant merchants arrival in Yucatan during the context of trade opening in the Caribbean. Likewise, it examines the mechanisms for strengthening the Yucatecan mercantile sector and the social, political and economic interference of these agents that allowed the commercial elite of Mérida and Campeche to position themselves as a power group in the region at the end of the Colonial era.

The White Owners of Saint Domingue, from Habitants to Émigrés. Their Exodus to the Spanish Santo Domingo, 1789-1793

2023-12-05T15:30:23-06:00

As a consequence of the outbreak of the French Revolution, in Saint Domingue occurred a particular and unique racial conflict and civil war in the French Caribbean, which involved white proprietors or habitants and the mulattoes or gens de couleur, also owners of the land and the slaves. It was then that the chary families of the colonial elite abandoned their residences and moved to the Spanish side, taking there some capital and domestic slaves. The flow of émigrés increased in August 1791 due to the uprising of the slaves of the Northern Province and, since March 1793, it happened as a result of the international conflict caused by the regicide of Louis XVI and the confrontation between the republican strongholds and the Spanish and English occupation forces. This article explains in detail and analyses the backgrounds, the causes of the exodus of the white owners or habitants, and the reasons that led them to leave their homeland, become emigrants, seek for refuge in the Spanish Santo Domingo, and even enlist in the armies of the Spanish king as long to fight against the French Republic and its revolution.

The Migration of Producers Cane at the Rise of Sugar Mills in Puerto Rico During the 19th Century: The Case of Juncos

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In this text we present a short description of the relationship between the immigration of foreigners and the rise of the sugar cane mill during the context of the 19th century. The Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 facilitated the immigration of foreigners, and many of them established sugar mills in different parts of the country. In this article, it will also be described the case of the mills of the central-eastern region, placing greater emphasis on the case of the municipality of Juncos.

A Migrant Widow from Zahle and Her Sons: Arab Migration to Barranquilla, Colombia 1900-1945

2023-12-05T15:35:42-06:00

Amelia Zathar de Traad, a widow and mother of six, left her hometown Zahlé, in Lebanon, to migrate to Barranquilla, Colombia. Soon, her sons formed a commercial company that concentrated on real estate, borrow money, and stock businesses. The study of the case of Amelia and her family allows us to expand the limited profile of Arab immigrants constructed by historiography, described as young single men that where dedicated mainly to the buying and selling of merchandise. This text checks over notarial protocols and demonstrates that not all the Arab immigrants who arrived in Colombia were men, nor they engage in commerce.

From “Undesirables” to the Sphere of Power. Arabs and Political Power in the Dominican Republic, 1950-2020

2023-12-05T15:38:41-06:00

Historically, the Dominican Republic has been a migration space. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the Arabs were one of the groups that settled in the country where they dabbled into several sectors. They made used of various mechanisms to get inserted into Dominican society, including politics. The article pretends to analyze the participation of these immigrants and their descendants in Dominican politics between 1950 and 2020. By using sources from the Archivo General de la Nación, Junta Central Electoral and the Archivo Histórico de Santiago, it is studied their performance in politics, their participation in leftist groups and how they ascended to reach the presidency of the Republic, and some of them became part of the national political elite.

Mukien Adriana Sang Ben. La migración china en República Dominicana 1961-2018. Santo Domingo: Instituto Nacional de Migración / Editora Búho, 2022: 697 pp.

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Claudia Korol. Las revoluciones de Berta. Conversaciones con Claudia Korol. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: América Libre, 2018: 256 pp.

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