La emigración a ultramar y su impactolos americanos del occidente de Asturias

Abstract

Mass European emigration to the Americas is a complex phenomenon, linked to economic liberalism and industrialization and its economic effects. Its effects were notable in areas of rural dominance, such as the Asturian West, both because of its socio-demographic implications (between 1853 and the 1970s of the twentieth century) and because of its impact on the process of incorporation, slow and late, into the modern market economy. Such effects reach up to the present, particularly from the urban point of view, in a significant number of capital council towns, some seaports and certain «colonies» of Asturian-Americans or simply Americans (the name of the Indians in the western half of Asturias).