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<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | ||
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
===Immigration to Ecuador=== | |||
Ecuador's population is ethnically diverse. The largest ethnic group (as of 2010) is the Mestizos, who are Amerindians with mixture or cultural influence from '''Spanish colonists''', and constitute about 71% of the population. | |||
*The White Ecuadorians (White Latin American) are a minority accounting for 6.1% of the population of Ecuador and can be found throughout all of Ecuador, primarily around the urban areas. | |||
*Ecuador's white population during its colonial era were mainly descendants from '''Spain'''. Today Ecuador's white population is a result of a mixture of European immigrants, '''predominantly from Spain with people from Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland''' who have settled in the early 20th century. | |||
*Ecuador also has a small population of '''Asian origins''', mainly those from West Asia, like the economically well off '''descendants of Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants'''', and an East Asian community mainly consisting of those of '''Japanese and Chinese''' descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century. | |||
*The '''Afro-Ecuadorians''' are a minority population (7%) in Ecuador. | |||
*5,000 '''Romani''' people live in Ecuador.<ref name="IE">"Ecuador", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador#Immigration_and_emigration, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
===Emigration From Ecuador=== | |||
==Records of Ecuador Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Ecuador Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||
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Online Sources[edit | edit source]
- 1636-1649 Algunos viajeros de España a la Real Audiencia de Quito entre 1636 y 1649 Some of the passengers that came from Spain to the administrative district ofQuito between 1636-1649.
- 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
Finding the Town of Origin in Ecuador[edit | edit source]
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Ecuador, see Ecuador Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Ecuador Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.
Immigration to Ecuador[edit | edit source]
Ecuador's population is ethnically diverse. The largest ethnic group (as of 2010) is the Mestizos, who are Amerindians with mixture or cultural influence from Spanish colonists, and constitute about 71% of the population.
- The White Ecuadorians (White Latin American) are a minority accounting for 6.1% of the population of Ecuador and can be found throughout all of Ecuador, primarily around the urban areas.
- Ecuador's white population during its colonial era were mainly descendants from Spain. Today Ecuador's white population is a result of a mixture of European immigrants, predominantly from Spain with people from Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland who have settled in the early 20th century.
- Ecuador also has a small population of Asian origins, mainly those from West Asia, like the economically well off descendants of Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants', and an East Asian community mainly consisting of those of Japanese and Chinese descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century.
- The Afro-Ecuadorians are a minority population (7%) in Ecuador.
- 5,000 Romani people live in Ecuador.[1]
Emigration From Ecuador[edit | edit source]
Records of Ecuador Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]
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One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below. |
- ↑ "Ecuador", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador#Immigration_and_emigration, accessed 13 June 2021.