MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS
The Migratory Movements portal is a project coordinated by the Subdirectorate General of the State Archives of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, developed with the aim of promoting and facilitating access to document collections relating to Spanish emigration in contemporary times. It offers free and open access to any user interested in accessing the documents and digitalised images of these collections.
This database is the result of an intense cooperation effort between several Spanish and Latin American archives and will gradually increase in size as the tasks of description and digitalisation of migratory documentation preserved in archival institutions in other regions are completed.
The personal details of emigrants that feature on this portal are taken from the following document series:
- Listas de pasajeros y emigrantes del Consulado de España en Veracruz [Lists of passengers and emigrants from the Spanish Consulate in Veracruz] (Spanish National Archive, Spain)
- Expedientes de licencias de embarque a la Isla de Cuba y Puerto Rico [Files of boarding permits for travelling to Cuba and Puerto Rico] (General Archive of the Indies, Spain)
- Registro Nacional de Extranjeros en México [National Register of Foreigners in Mexico] (Mexican National and State Archives)
- Solicitudes de permisos de residencia en la República Dominicana [Requests for residency permits for the Dominican Republic] (General State Archive of the Dominican Republic)
- Libros de Pasajeros de Policía de Montevideo [Passenger Log Books of the Montevideo Police] (General State Archive of Uruguay).
- Registro de Nacionalidad del Consulado de España en Rosario [Nationality Register of the Spanish Consulate in Rosario] (Parque de España Complex Foundation in Argentina).
The Portal has been updated in 2024 thanks to the support of the project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union "Archives and Traces of Migration"- the AToM project, which has made it possible to update the sourcebook.
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