Exile, Migration and Diasporas

In this page we are providing  a short selection of reading suggestions, including evidence-based information that may be of interest to researchers exploring the themes of Exile, Migration and Diasporas in the Hispanic-Anglosphere, mainly in relation to the activities of individuals, networks and communities.

Menudo, José M., ‘Pablo Montesino’s exile and the basis of the Liberal Education Project’, in Iglesias-Rogers, Graciela, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

All the open-access articles above offer new documentary data (in Spanish) about the life of the Naples-born leading guitar theorist, composer, performer and military man Federico Moretti (1769-1839) who spent much of his life in Spain including family background, travel, jobs and relationships with key British characters of the time.

Also relevant:

Brooks, Walter A.. “Jones, Lewis (1837–1904).” Walter A. Brooks Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, Oct. 2009. 7 Sept. 2015  http://www.oxforddnb.com.winchester.idm.oclc.org/view/article/89948?docPos=5

Crow, Joanna, The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013).

Deguzmán, M., Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2005).

Fernández, Manuel A. ‘The Scots in Latin America: A Survey,’ in The Scots Abroad: Labour, Capital, Enterprise, 1750–1914, ed. R.A. Cage (London: Croom Helm, 1985), 100–145

Gleeson, David T. , The Irish in the Atlantic World (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010)

Harris, Trevor, “A place to speak the ‘language of heaven’? Patagonia as a land of broken Welsh promise,” in Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias, ed. A. Varnava (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), p. 125-143.

Harris, Trevor, ‘Britain, Argentina and Welsh Migration: A Reassessment,’ in International Migrations in the Victorian Era, ed. Marie Ruiz (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2018), 132–55

Harris, Trevor, ‘British Informal Empire during the Great War. Welsh Identity and Loyalty in Argentina’, Itinerario, 38/03 (2014), 103-17.

Lloyd, David and. O’Neal, Peter D., eds., The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Miller, Ivor L., Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009)

O’Neill, Peter T., and David Lloyd. The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (Basingstoke, 2009).

Pérez de Mendiola, M. (ed.), Bridging the Atlantic: Toward a Reassessment of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Ties (Albany, 1996).

Reid-Vazquez, Michele, The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2011)

Rheinheimer, Hans Key, Topo: The Story of a Scottish Colony Near Caracas 1825–1827 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988)

Richards, Eric, Britannia’s Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600 (London and New York: Hambledon and London Press, 2004).

Rock, David, The British in Argentina: Commerce, Settlers and Power, 1800–2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

Rock, David, ‘The British of Argentina’ in R. A. Bickers, ed. Settlers and expatriates: Britons over the seas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Stewart, Iain A. D., Grierson, William, and Robson, Jane, From Caledonia to the Pampas: two accounts by early Scottish emigrants to the Argentine (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

Taylor, Lucy. “Global Perspectives on Welsh Patagonia: The Complexities of Being Both Colonizer and Colonized.” Journal of Global History 13, no. 3 (2018): 446-68. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022818000232.

Williams, Rhiannon Heledd, ‘Welsh Migration to America during the 19th Century,’ in International Migrations in the Victorian Era, ed. Marie Ruiz (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2018)., 107–31

You may also find useful checking the entry in the ArchivesHub on ‘The Welsh in Patagonia’: The Welsh in Patagonia – Archives Hub (jisc.ac.uk)Links to an external site.