Pamplona-Iruña. This is actually her doctoral thesis that is now in the form of a book and includes a list (year, name, origin and destination) of 4,000 immigrants who left Navarre between 1840 and 1874 headed for Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba mainly, and in some cases, Mexico, Puerto Rico or California. Many settled permanently in their new home and others returned, establishing that bridge and those ties that still persist today between families on both sides of the ocean.
There is no doubt that the migratory event marked, not only the protagonists, but many of their towns who saw how many of their youth emigrated and in each house one or more members set out for America. The majority, youth between the ages of 16-25, and mainly men; although there were some women, and almost all of rural extraction. Basque would be the common language of almost all of them, and not many knew how to write beyond their name.
Emigración de la Navarra Atlántica a América (1840 - 1874) (Emigration from Atlantic Navarre to America (1840-1874)) by Raquel Idoate Ancín, was published in 2020 by Caligrama Publishers and presented in Pamplona this year. It contains 530 pages, of which 222 correspond to the list with data of those who emigrated during the aforementioned time period, obtained by notaries in Bera, Etxalar, Goizueta, Ihaben, Leitza, Lekunberri, Lesaka, Lizaso, Doneztebe-Santesteban, Iruña-Pamplona, Uharte-Arakil and Villava-Atarrabia.
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