The historiographical and methodological scope of Basque and Navarre emigration to America

Translated by Eugenio García PérezOver the last years we have seen a considerable decrease in the research, reliable or not, especially in the number of published books or journal articles, as compared to the number of publications since the second half of the 1980s, regarding Basque emigration towards America. From my professional perspective, I have currently broadened the field of my research on the Spanish emigration to America to a bigger spatial scope, than the one I have normally worked with: The Basque Country (Spanish and French) and Navarre. Therefore, and thanks to obtaining the URJC- Banco Santander (Santander Universities-Universia Programme) Research Chair, I have begun a phase in which I wish to proceed with the study of the Spanish migratory processes to Latin America from the last decade of the 20th century and later periods. The methodology of these publications, which will appear in the shape of collective essays written by specialists, will have a very different construction, at least in absolute terms, to the ones I have done up to the moment...This work is part of the research project linked to the Research Chair Santander Universities/URJC, Iberoamérica: Presencia española y Desarrollo Socioeconómico whose Director is Professor of contemporary History, José Manuel Azcona, and whose reference is FO1-HC/Cat-Ib-200