De la emigración en América Latina a la crisis migratoria ; De l’émigration en Amérique latine à la crise migratoire ; De la emigración en América Latina a la crisis migratoria: la historia olvidada de Aquitania en los siglos XIX y XXI ; De l’émigration en Amérique latine à la crise migratoire: histoire oubliée de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine XIXe-XXIe siècle

International audience ; More than 200,000 emigrants left the ports of Aquitaine for Argentina or Uruguay, Brazil or Mexico, Peru or Chile during the 19th century. Basques, Bearneses and Gascons paid agents who enlisted young people in the markets and promised an easy life on the other side of the Atlantic. Today, this memory of emigration is forgotten in debates on the migration issue marked by xenophobia. Migrations are now understood only as immigrations, the immediate history of the transhipment of thousands of human lives on European coasts after a chaotic journey, whereas migrations are... Mehr ...