2008-04-27

Quesiton On Immigration From Europe To North America

I admitetly won't have time to research this so I'll just throw it out there: Following the World War II, why was there massive emigration from places like Germany, Ireland, Italy and some eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary, but not Spain to North America?

Of course, for some of these countries like Germany, Ireland, Sweden and to a lesser extent Italy immigration had been taking place for some time. As far back as the 17th century.

Other types of immigration came from countries like the Netherlands, France, England (and Scots) and Spain all of which were empires with interests in North America that lured people to the new world. But this is besides the point.

The point was why didn't Spaniards emigrate on a large scale? Did it have something to do with Franco?

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