Abstract

CORREA-RESTREPO, Juan Santiago. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CARIBBEAN MIGRATION IN PANAMA, MIDDLE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES: AN INDIRECT APPROACH BASED ON HEMEROGRAPHIC AND SECONDARY SOURCES^*. Rev.econ.inst. [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.49, pp.165-188.  Epub Nov 03, 2023. ISSN 0124-5996.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v25n49.08.

This article analyzes how the processes of construction of the railroad and the Canal in Panama from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, generated migratory dynamics from the Caribbean and other origins, with a historiographical perspective, and also using hemerographic and primary sources, that have been little studied. This study finds that there is a dominant vector of Jamaican migration to Panama, although its magnitude is not easy to quantify. From what can be deduced, this migrant population dedicated itself to construction as skilled and unskilled workers, but also settled definitively on the Isthmus.

JEL: B27, B52, B55.

Keywords : migrations; infrastructure; historiography; Panama Railroad; Panama Canal.

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