Portuguese migration to the Canary Islands: an analysis based on surnames
| Autor: | Valeria de Los Angeles Fuster, Jorge Román-Busto, Sonia Edith Colantonio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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MIGRATION
Sugar cane media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Population Distribution (economics) SUGAR CANE Humans Names Genetic exchange Location education Anthropology Cultural Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common geography education.field_of_study Models Statistical geography.geographical_feature_category purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https] Portugal business.industry PORTUGUESE SURNAMES Agriculture General Medicine Emigration and Immigration language.human_language Saccharum Spain purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9 [https] Anthropology Archipelago language Ethnology Animal Science and Zoology Portuguese business CANARY ISLANDS |
| Zdroj: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas instacron:CONICET |
| ISSN: | 0003-5548 |
| DOI: | 10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0117 |
| Popis: | As a part of a wider analysis of population and genetic exchange between Spain and Portugal, the long term pattern of Portuguese immigration to the Canary Islands was studied by means of the frequency of Portuguese surnames. A database of 1,995,833 individuals was obtained from the Spanish National Statistics Institute (2006). Among the 826 most frequent surnames to appear, 79 surnames of Portuguese origin were selected. The distribution of these surnames by municipalities and islands, the Fisher index of diversity, and the Lasker inter-population relationship coefficients Rij were considered. These coefficients were inter-correlated and correlated with other variables that could have influenced the distribution of surnames. From the observed distribution of the frequency of surnames, a non-random migration pattern conditioned by economic factors was found. The greatest diversity of surnames existed in cane cultivating areas after the first arrival of Portuguese immigrants. A later dispersion of surnames among islands was correlated with the inter-island geographic distances. In some islands the arrival of new immigrants continued due to their strategic location within the Canary archipelago. The Canary Islands reveal a high frequency and diversity of Portuguese surnames. The results also prove a heterogeneous distribution of these surnames throughout the archipelago. In contrast to the Portuguese archipelagos, some Canary localities have received immigrants continuously because of their economic importance in sugar cane cultivation and strategic geographic location on the maritime routes to Africa and America. Fil: Román Busto, Jorge. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: Fuster, Valeria de Los Angeles. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: Colantonio, Sonia Edith. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina |
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