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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sæther, Steinar A
• Steinar A. Sæther

Titel

Making Sense of a Minor Migrant Stream

Ist Teil von

• Expectations Unfulfilled, 2016, Vol.24, p.17-40

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The relatively few Norwegians who migrated to Latin America between 1820 and 1940 represented a miniscule share of the transatlantic migration system. More than fifty million Europeans crossed the Atlantic between 1815 and 1939.¹ Nearly one million of these were Norwegians. But only about ten thousand of them were Norwegians who went to one or more Latin American countries. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss possible similarities and differences between the small stream of Norwegians to Latin America and the other streams of the mass transatlantic movement. In order to do that, I will first present a general