¿Hacer la América? El retorno y la repatriación de españoles en los estudios migratorios

Abstract

This article deals with the historiographical analyse of the migration studies, in particular about return migration, with emphasis in the perspective of repatriation of immigrants since the last third of 19th century and during the first half of 20th. To that end, we recover first the pioneering work of the sociologist Juan Francisco Marsal, called Hacer la América, biografía de un emigrante, published for the first time in 1969 in Buenos Aires. After that, we analyse the return migration in Spanish historiography, and then, we finish with an assessment of the recent production about repatriation of immigrants by the Spanish State