User:Forrestlee/Sandbox/Database for Norwegian Emigration to Latin America

Project Background
The HULA or (Historisk Utvandring til Latin-Amerika|Historical Emigration to Latin America) database began in 2011 when the Humanities faculty at the University of Oslo received funds to study Norwegian migration to Latin America. The primary goal as stated on the University of Oslo website was:


 * "The project aims to produce new knowledge about emigration to Latin America that will be pertinent for greater comparative perspective and that can serve as a model for studies of other migrant groups. The central research question revolves around demographic and cultural relationship: the emigrants' social background, their geographic mobility to, in, and from Latin America, their identity, their representation of home and receiving country, their political perspectives and economic activities."

The project culminated with the publishing of the book Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820 -1940 in 2015 which is available online as a free e-book at brill.com.

History
While an estimated 800,000 Norwegians immigrated to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, another smaller group of Norwegian numbering between 10,000 and 20,000 immigrated to Latin America. The reasons were remarkably similar...Yet the experiences of the immigrants in the United States and Latin America were not.

Database
Out of the 10,000 to 20,000 emigrants, roughtly 8800 have been catalogued in the HULA database. A wide range of published and unpublished sources were used from archives both in Norway and across Latin America as well as from individual submissions to the project in the form of diaries, daybooks, journals, etc.


 * HULA - Learn more

There are four components to the database, only one of which is available in English:


 * 1) The HULA emigrant search (available in English)
 * 2) The HULA II document list
 * 3) The HULA II document search
 * 4) The HULA map - Googlemaps may say there is an error, but the map just needs time to load.