Spanish Immigration to the United States Author(s): R. A. Gomez Reviewed work(s): Source: The Americas, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jul., 1962), pp. 59-78 Published by: Academy of American Franciscan History Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/979406 . Accessed: 04/12/2012 23:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Academy of American Franciscan History is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Americas. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded by the authorized user from 192.168.52.78 on Tue, 4 Dec 2012 23:37:58 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions SPANISHIMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES* IN our preoccupationwith the Spaniardsof earliercenturies and their subsequentirnpact on the historyof the United States,we havetended to overlookthe Spanishimmigrants of moderndecades. The presenceof largenumbers of Spanishfamily names in the United States,pariicularly in New York City and in westernstates, has ob- scuredthe fact thatvery few Spaniardshave come to the UnitedStates directlyfrom Spain.1It is the purposeof this paperto investigatethe dataon modernmovements of Spaniardsto the Americasin general, with specialemphasis on the UnitedStates, and to considerthe pattern of Spanishsettlement in the United Statesthat resultedfrom these movements.