Brief quantitative analysis of the Galician emigration to Venezuela

Abstract

In the 1950s, Venezuela became, for the first time, a recipient country of massive emigration from Europe, mainly from Italy, Spain and Portugal. Between 1954 and 1959 Venezuela dsiplaced Argentina for the first place of American countries destined fro Spanish and, consequently, Galician emigration. The aim of this project is to present and analyze the data obtained through different sources on the importance of Galician presence in the context of Spanish emigration to Venezuela and the origin of the emigrants by provinces, sex, and age as wll as some additional details on the return to the native land.