The Vanishing Asturians or Reverse Migration:
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:21 am
Hola Amigos,
The study of the U.S. Census Spanish totals for the years 1870 to 1940, has yielded some intersting information. I am currently struggling with the fact that between the years of 1930 and 1940, there was a loss of 17,499 persons of Spanish heritage from the United States. This total obviuosly does not include the children born to the Spanish immigrants during those ten years since the Census terminology used is persons born in Spain.
They simply vanished without any historical reference as to why. The most obvious answer is the Great Depression and the loss of employment. The label of persons born in Spain leads to a problem in identifying them as Asturian which I believe most of them were quite likely from that region of Spain. In my own family, there were two Uncles, one Aunt, and three first Cousins who evidently returned to Spain.
In using the terminology vanishing is maybe not quite proper, for they did not disappear into thin air. The number of 17,499. causes one to ponder on where did they go and where are the stories of their plights. I have written down my thoughts about this time period and I would appreciate learning from the other members of the forum about their family anecdotes concerning this reverse migration back to Asturians.
Manny
The study of the U.S. Census Spanish totals for the years 1870 to 1940, has yielded some intersting information. I am currently struggling with the fact that between the years of 1930 and 1940, there was a loss of 17,499 persons of Spanish heritage from the United States. This total obviuosly does not include the children born to the Spanish immigrants during those ten years since the Census terminology used is persons born in Spain.
They simply vanished without any historical reference as to why. The most obvious answer is the Great Depression and the loss of employment. The label of persons born in Spain leads to a problem in identifying them as Asturian which I believe most of them were quite likely from that region of Spain. In my own family, there were two Uncles, one Aunt, and three first Cousins who evidently returned to Spain.
In using the terminology vanishing is maybe not quite proper, for they did not disappear into thin air. The number of 17,499. causes one to ponder on where did they go and where are the stories of their plights. I have written down my thoughts about this time period and I would appreciate learning from the other members of the forum about their family anecdotes concerning this reverse migration back to Asturians.
Manny