Female staggered mobility across the Spanish Atlantic: The Bertodano-Kneppers in the early eighteenth century

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Abstract

Drawing on the “new mobilities paradigm” and contemporary migration studies, this article offers an approximation to the experiences of mobility of María Juana Knepper y Trippel and her five daughters. Their staggered geographical trajectories from Flanders to the Pyrenees, Andalusia, the Spanish circum-Caribbean and back to the Iberian Peninsula are reconstructed through a longitudinal approach, revealing patterns that a focus on one woman or on movement between just two places would miss. Their physical movement is situated in the context of representations of relocation in the royal service as a burden and a sacrifice, before turning to an analysis of the networks and strategies constructed and obstructed by their mobility. Their movement was always intertwined with that of their male relations. Nonetheless, they played key roles in furthering their family’s political and economic interests, creating bonds that linked together distant parts of the Atlantic world, and articulating the Spanish empire.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)604-639
JournalAtlantic Studies
Volume20
Issue number4
Early online date13 Mar 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2023

Keywords

  • Atlantic migration
  • Ongoing mobility experiences
  • family and empire
  • family networks
  • mobile women

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