Migrations and mobility in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula: Trujillo and its Partido in the first fourth century of the nineteenth century

Abstract

During the Ancien Regime, in the city of Trujillo there are population movements, because it absorbs immigrants from rural communities, as well as experiencing the departure of people who go to other territories. As a source for this study, it is used the Census of Population that are preserved in the Municipal Archive of Trujillo, in the twenties of the nineteenth century. The micro-historical analysis is done in two ways: on the one hand, it is analyzed the biological and socioprofessional characteristics of the people who migrate, as well as their family circumstances. On the other hand, it is analyzed the possible causes of mobility and whether migrants between people from rural communities occur in a short, medium or long distance.