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Book chapters by Pedro J Oiarzabal

Prólogo, en Guillermo Tabernilla y Ander González. (2918). Combatientes Vascos en la Segunda Guer... more Prólogo, en Guillermo Tabernilla y Ander González. (2918). Combatientes Vascos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Madrid: Desperta Ferro.

En "Marcos interpretativos de la realidad social contemporánea / Egungo gizarte errealitatea interpretatzeko bideak" coordinado por Mercedes Acillona. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2012

Desde la transición a la democracia y hasta marzo de 2009, Euskadi ha estado gobernado por partid... more Desde la transición a la democracia y hasta marzo de 2009, Euskadi ha estado gobernado por partidos nacionalistas y coaliciones. Durante este tiempo, Lehendakaritza, la Secretaría General de Acción Exterior, y la Dirección para las Relaciones con las Colectividades Vascas en el Exterior (hoy en día la Dirección para los Ciudadanos y Colectividades Vascas en el Exterior) han estado dirigidos por el Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV). En las elecciones al Parlamento Vasco de marzo de 2009, a pesar de que el PNV obtuvo el mayor porcentaje de votos, no consiguió los suficientes apoyos para formar gobierno. Consecuentemente, el Partido Socialista de Euskadi (PSE) formó gobierno en minoría con el apoyo del Partido Popular (PP)...

The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration edited by Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn, and Radhika Gajjala, 2019

Based on original user–based research on Basque diaspora–association groups on Facebook, this cha... more Based on original user–based research on Basque diaspora–association groups on Facebook, this chapter analyses the implications that SNSs have on migrants and their descendants’ identity discourses and identity construction. It explores the concept of affective capital online from transnational and diasporic perspectives. By focusing on the Basque diaspora case, I contribute to research on non–state (ethnonational) diasporas in the digital age and on ICTs use among international migrant diasporas. Particularly, the chapter illustrates how technology enables, reinforces and maintains identity and belonging; and how shrinking–temporal and physical distance technologies, especially SNSs, facilitate the construction of common networked–emotional/affective transnational communities across the planet.

Migración y Nacionalismo. Desafíos del Siglo XXI editado por María Eugenia Cruset, 2013

Teniendo en cuenta las limitaciones inherentes a las diferentes perspectivas tanto teóricas como ... more Teniendo en cuenta las limitaciones inherentes a las diferentes perspectivas tanto teóricas como metodológicas relacionadas con la complejidad del estudio del fenómeno de las migraciones internacionales—pasadas y presentes—el capítulo tiene por objeto poner en valor el concepto de diáspora como unidad de análisis de las migraciones transfronterizas y/o transnacionales, lo que conllevaría la superación del llamado “nacionalismo metodológico”. Poniendo como ejemplo el caso de la migración tradicional vasca, intentaré subrayar tanto el carácter liminal que ocupa la diáspora vasca así como el desarrollo y mantenimiento de una identidad emocional que sobrepasan conceptualmente las fronteras ideológicas del estado-nación y las limitaciones impuestas por una historiografía cuyo fundamento era el de perpetuar el sistema de estado-nación como único marco de análisis social posible. Aún más, las tecnologías emergentes de la información y de la comunicación han propiciado la visualización de conductas, prácticas e identidades de marcado carácter transnacional y glocal poniendo de manifiesto el desarrollo de un nuevo espacio digital—el ciberespacio—cuyo análisis no está exento de retos metodológicos y teóricos. En este sentido, la presencia de la diáspora vasca en Internet nos ofrece la oportunidad de repensar la identidad vasca, la cultura, nación, y país de origen y sus intersecciones con la tecnología desde diferentes puntos de vista, permitiéndonos mirar más allá de la concepción del País Vasco como una comunidad imaginada y enraizada en un territorio geográfico específico.

Processes of Immigration in Rural Europe The Status Quo, Implications and Development Strategies (edited by Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger and Igor Jelen), 2018

Migrants have usually engaged in rural-urban migration. However, there is increasing evidence of ... more Migrants have usually engaged in rural-urban migration. However, there is increasing evidence of important moves also occurring towards rural areas. This is the case in some rural municipalities of the province of Bizkaia in the Basque Country Autonomous Community in Spain, where the proportion of migrants is indeed higher than in urban centres in the same region, even if they involve smaller numbers. In those areas with reduced population and low population density the arrival of migrants has impacted local communities and local services more than in urban centres...In order to contribute to more nuanced and locally embedded understandings of how international migration impacts on and is dealt with in specific rural contexts, in this chapter, we examine: how are migrants perceived in these small rural municipalities by local authorities? Which challenges are local authorities facing due to the settlement of international migrants and how are they addressing them? How do migrants evaluate their lives in these rural communities? How can these experiences contribute to our theorisation of migration processes as well as to conceptions of the ‘rural’?

Sovereignty Revisited The Basque Case Edited by Åshild Kolås, Pedro Ibarra Güell (Routledge), 2017

This chapter presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of the balance of power between n... more This chapter presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of the balance of power between non-state homelands and their diaspora populations, particularly of homeland engagement in diaspora affairs, through an in-depth exploration and analysis of the complex relationship between the Basque diaspora institutions and the contested homeland, Euskal Herria (the Basque Country). Although the homeland is divided into three French and Spanish political administrations, the government of the Basque Autonomous Community has assumed much of the institutional representation of the diaspora since the restoration of democracy in Spain.
Within the theoretical frameworks of international relations and diaspora studies, this study is rooted in local cultural practices from which the data are extracted, relying on in-depth interviews of Basque policy makers and diaspora institutional leaders as well as ethnographic research and participant observation in diaspora events and activities.
This chapter highlights the influence of non-state homeland governments on their diaspora populations and social organizations, particularly the destabilizing consequences of homeland political parties on the diaspora, in attempts to (re)construct their cultural hegemony. The diaspora becomes a desired lost object that validates alternative homeland ideologies.

The essay examines the increasing interrelation between migration and information and communicati... more The essay examines the increasing interrelation between migration and information and communication technologies, foucusing on the Basque diaspora case. Communication and new technological devices are quintessential for some of the changes in diasporic identity and its future. Technology is the key concept that relates different diasporas across the globe within a common framework.

Knowledge Communities, 2011

The chapter examines, through the study of the Basque diaspora case, the institutional presence o... more The chapter examines, through the study of the Basque diaspora case, the institutional presence of migrant diasporic communities on the World Wide Web and the usage over time of various digital platforms such as social network sites. The author explores the establishment of online communities as webs of exchange of information and transfer of knowledge in both the physical and digital worlds.

Migraciones en el Tercer Milenio. Una mirada del País Vasco, directed by Ana Ugalde Zaratiegui., Jul 1, 2014

En este breve capítulo presento una investigación en curso, iniciada en 2011, sobre la migración ... more En este breve capítulo presento una investigación en curso, iniciada en 2011, sobre la migración vasca de retorno, particularmente de aquellas personas con origen en el Territorio Histórico de Bizkaia, acercándonos a la historia oral como una aproximación metodológica al estudio del fenómeno de la migración, del exilio y del retorno vasco contemporáneo y que pueda enriquecer la diversidad del patrimonio inmaterial vasco.

Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada, edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi, Apr 1, 2014

The framework of the chapter lies in the understanding that the movement of people — particularly... more The framework of the chapter lies in the understanding that the movement of people — particularly migrants such as the Basques — and the increasing significance of communication in our quotidian lives – which facilitates the exchange of ideas, information, and knowledge — are two main manifestations of today’s globality. The Internet is the supraterritorial communication per excellence that involves a new kind of social and placeless geography, called cyberspace. This digital space is the new home for many migrants, diasporans, and for their social, cultural, economic, religious and political organizations. If ethnic populations today communicate and create content online, how can this data be efficiently preserved and disseminated? Could we afford taking the risk of loss of digital heritage created by minorities, migrants and the society at large? In this context, how can technology help us to collect, preserve and make our memory, our identity, our history and past accessible to the public? How reliable is this digital memory to preserve our history, in this case our ethnic groups and migrants’ histories?

Books by Pedro J Oiarzabal

This book engages questions central to the study of diasporas and digital technologies, by analyz... more This book engages questions central to the study of diasporas and digital technologies, by analyzing the Basque case in depth. It is about how one diaspora group, the Basques are using the Internet to preserve its identity and culture. It also examines the way Basques in the diaspora are using the Internet to create online communities and a kind of digital nationalism that links all Basques, whether living in the contemporary homeland or scattered around the world, into a single self-identifying people. The research focuses particularly on the websites created and maintained by Basque social and benevolent organizations in sixteen countries in North and South America, Australia, and Western Europe, prior to the popularization of the so-called Social or Collaborative Web or Web 2.0. That is to say, the book examines the ways these websites represent the organizations of which they are a part, and the ways they depict Basque culture, homeland, nationhood, identity, and political aspirations.

This book studies “communities of knowledge,” a concept that goes beyond the notion of communitie... more This book studies “communities of knowledge,” a concept that goes beyond the notion of communities of practice to analyze the structure of the emergent knowledge societies. A complex society has to be integrated by various and heterogeneous communities and a knowledge society should be based on the plurality of communities of knowledge. This was the main hypothesis behind the organization of the “International Conference on Knowledge Communities,” which is at the origins of this book. A selection of updated versions of the papers presented at the conference is found in this volume. Our intention was to examine the structure of knowledge-based societies, while exploring new modalities of innovation, in addition to those based on science (e.g., e-science) and engineering. The chapters of this book are an in-depth examination of the concept of knowledge communities and address scientific, engineering, and artistic communities as well as online communities with particular interest on the development of knowledge societies.

The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every a... more The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every aspect of contemporary life. Diasporas in the New Media Age is the first book-length examination of the social use of these technologies by emigrants and diasporas around the world. The eighteen original essays in the book explore the personal, familial, and social impact of modern communication technology on populations of European, Asian, African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and Latin American emigrants. It also looks at the role and transformation of such concepts as identity, nation, culture, and community in the era of information technology and economic globalization. The contributors, who represent a number of disciplines and national origins, also take a range of approaches—empirical, theoretical, and rhetorical—and combine case studies with thoughtful analysis. Diasporas in the New Media Age is both a discussion of the use of communication technologies by various emigrant groups and an engaging account of the immigrant experience in the contemporary world. It offers important insights into the ways that dispersed populations are using digital media to maintain ties with their families and homeland, and to create new communities that preserve their culture and reinforce their sense of identity. In addition, the book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the impact of technology on society in general.

"Gardeners of Identity: Basques in San Francisco Bay Area" uses historical archive research and v... more "Gardeners of Identity: Basques in San Francisco Bay Area" uses historical archive research and voluminous interviews to trace the history of San Francisco’s Basque population from the city’s prehistory to the present.

Under the Spanish Empire many Basques played key roles in the establishment of settlements throughout California with particular emphasis on today's San Francisco Bay Area. In 1774 Basque Creole Juan Bautista de Anza explored the San Francisco Bay and located the sites for Mission Dolores and the San Francisco Presidio. Anza’s second in command, José Joaquín Moraga, and Father Francisco Palóu founded the mission in June of 1776 and royal presidio in December of the same year.

Basque immigration continued as the region changed from Spanish, to Mexican, to American hands in the nineteenth century. Waves of Basque immigrants migrated especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, when many Basques arrived to work as sheepherders across the American West. Many also settled in San Francisco, where they formed landscaping enterprises, bakeries, boardinghouses and restaurants among many other businesses. As their population grew, they also formed associations, culminating in the building of the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco, which is an important meeting point for Basques in the area to this day.

Author Pedro J. Oiarzabal employed an innovative research method that focused on empowering the Basque community to conduct and compile its own research, the result of which are hundreds of interviews, many conducted by community members or as parts of the round table discussions, with Basque immigrants and descendants who populate the pages of this fascinating book.

The publication of "Gardeners of Identity: Basques in the San Francisco Bay Area" (ISBN 978-1-877802-88-1, 368 pages, illustrations, $29.95) is the fourth in the Center for Basque Studies’ Migration and Diaspora Studies series. The Center, at the University of Nevada, Reno, is the world’s foremost publisher of Basque-related topics in the English language. For more information or to order review copies of "Gardeners of Identity," contact the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

For information: http://basque.unr.edu/ or Contact: dmontero@unr.edu
Phone: +1-775-682-5587

Edited by Pedro J. Oiarzabal, "A Candle in the Night" chronicles the history of the Center for Ba... more Edited by Pedro J. Oiarzabal, "A Candle in the Night" chronicles the history of the Center for Basque Studies, as remembered by many of those who were most important in its foundation and development. It also offers much valuable information about the center’s offspring, including the Basque Studies Library (the main repository of information about all things Basque for the English speaking world), the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press (one of the most successful ethnic series published by an academic press in the United States), and the University Studies Abroad Consortium, (one of the largest programs of its kind in the world.)

In 1967 a small Basque studies program was established within the social sciences division of the University of Nevada's Desert Research Institute. As originally conceived, the program's purpose was to study the Basques (who were historically the foremost sheep tenders in the American West) as a key human element in the Great Basin ecosystem. At the time, no one imagined that such a modest, narrowly focused little undertaking could grow to become today's Center for Basque Studies, the leading research and educational institute of its kind outside the European Basque homeland.

"A Candle in the Night" is published by the University of Nevara Oral History Program (UNOHP, 2007). (ISBN: 1564753964, hardcover, 452 pages, illustrations, US$29.95)

To order a copy, or for more information, please contact the
University of Nevada Oral History Program (http://oralhistory.unr.edu/)

"La Identidad Vasca en el Mundo: Narrativas sobre Identidad más allá de las Fronteras" (The Basqu... more "La Identidad Vasca en el Mundo: Narrativas sobre Identidad más allá de las Fronteras" (The Basque Identity in the World: Identity Narratives beyond Frontiers) is the result of research that took place in 2002, in which twenty countries, where Basques have an institutional presence in either the diaspora or the Basque Country, participated. Basques of different ages, generations, diverse socio-economic and historical backgrounds, political traditions, and geographical locations define in their own words the meaning of being Basque in a globalized world.

Papers by Pedro J Oiarzabal

Hermes: pentsamendu eta historia aldizkaria = revista de pensamiento e historia, 2002

Información del artículo Kale Borroka: discursos de los Medios de Comunicación.

Sancho el sabio: Revista de cultura e investigación vasca, 2007

Este artículo nos presenta los resultados del análisis de contenidos de los sucesivos discursos e... more Este artículo nos presenta los resultados del análisis de contenidos de los sucesivos discursos etnonacionalistas realizados por el Gobierno Vasco sobre la diáspora vasca desde la restauración de la democracia hasta hoy. El artículo pretende aportar una visión sobre la actual influencia de la ideología en la construcción de discursos de identidad de la diáspora. ¿En qué medida ha influido la existencia de la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca y un Gobierno, con sus políticas, sus acciones e ideologías en la identidad vasca de la diáspora y sus discursos institucionales?

Anuario de Acción Humanitaria y Derechos Humanos, 2012

En este artículo presentamos un marco analítico basado en el concepto de pertenencia, que tiene e... more En este artículo presentamos un marco analítico basado en el concepto de pertenencia, que tiene en consideración las dimensiones personales, sociales y performativas del proceso de integración de la juventud inmigrante. Este concepto de pertenencia se perfila como uno de los principales ejes de la investigación actual ya que permite analizar tanto las experiencias subjetivas como el entorno social que afectan a la vida cotidiana y conforman el marco identitario de los jóvenes inmigrantes. Al tiempo que incorpora la dimensión participativa.

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2019

This paper explores the way that associations of migrants in Spain (AMS) in the 2010 decade integ... more This paper explores the way that associations of migrants in Spain (AMS) in the 2010 decade integrate into the Network Society by analyzing how they use information and communication technologies (ICTs), while looking at the potential implications of those technologies for fostering their social capital. To what extent are AMS using ICTs? To what degree is the use of those technologies improving their social capital? Original research of eighty-five associations of the largest migrant communities in Spain, i.e., Romanian, Moroccan, Ecuadorian, Colombian and Bolivian, in twenty-three municipalities in five Spanish regions, is presented here. The analysis focuses on the factors that influence the use of ICTs by AMS, such as the representatives’ technological skills, and on the relation that this use may have on their social capital, such as the construction of collaborative digital ecosystems that may positively enhance their ties with the host society. Read here: https://rdcu.be/bQ4nA

En "Marcos interpretativos de la realidad social contemporánea / Egungo gizarte errealitatea interpretatzeko bideak" coordinado por Mercedes Acillona. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2012

The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration edited by Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn, and Radhika Gajjala, 2019

Migración y Nacionalismo. Desafíos del Siglo XXI editado por María Eugenia Cruset, 2013

Processes of Immigration in Rural Europe The Status Quo, Implications and Development Strategies (edited by Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger and Igor Jelen), 2018

Sovereignty Revisited The Basque Case Edited by Åshild Kolås, Pedro Ibarra Güell (Routledge), 2017

Knowledge Communities, 2011

Migraciones en el Tercer Milenio. Una mirada del País Vasco, directed by Ana Ugalde Zaratiegui., Jul 1, 2014

Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada, edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi, Apr 1, 2014

For information: http://basque.unr.edu/ or Contact: dmontero@unr.edu
Phone: +1-775-682-5587

"A Candle in the Night" is published by the University of Nevara Oral History Program (UNOHP, 2007). (ISBN: 1564753964, hardcover, 452 pages, illustrations, US$29.95)

To order a copy, or for more information, please contact the
University of Nevada Oral History Program (http://oralhistory.unr.edu/)

Hermes: pentsamendu eta historia aldizkaria = revista de pensamiento e historia, 2002

Información del artículo Kale Borroka: discursos de los Medios de Comunicación.

Sancho el sabio: Revista de cultura e investigación vasca, 2007

Anuario de Acción Humanitaria y Derechos Humanos, 2012

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2019

Facebook Stories, 2012

Zer gertatzen da zure jaioterritik kanpo jaioterrian bertan baino jende gehiago bizi bada? [This ... more Zer gertatzen da zure jaioterritik kanpo jaioterrian bertan baino jende gehiago bizi bada? [This is a translated version of a story, "The Basque Diaspora: Finding a Digital Home"]

Saibigain, Jun 15, 2017

The paper (in the Spanish language) deconstructs a popular myth regarding the use of the Basque l... more The paper (in the Spanish language) deconstructs a popular myth regarding the use of the Basque language during WWII (the so-called Basque Code Talkers) by the US Armed Forces, which has been taken for a real historical event by the official historiography for the last seven decades. It also provides a historical context to explore the myth's origin and its development, with especial emphasis on the relationship between the Office of Strategic Services and the Basque Intelligence Service or Organization Airedale.

The article is open and available to the world (free of charge) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-soXPaPxVtJMld2QWVnRHhNcDA/view

Migraciones, 2015

Actualmente más de dos millones de españoles residen oficialmente en el extranjero. Desde 1980, t... more Actualmente más de dos millones de españoles residen oficialmente en el extranjero. Desde 1980, tanto el gobierno central como los autonómicos han implementado paulatinamente una pléyade de políticas con el objetivo de reconocer y apoyar a sus poblaciones emigrantes. El presente artículo se adentra en el análisis comparativo y evolutivo del marco legislativo, de las estructuras administrativas, de los servicios y presupuestos dedicados a la emigración, y que han sido desarrollados por el gobierno central y por diez de las Comunidades Autónomas con mayor volumen de población en el exterior. La investigación se complementa con entrevistas a los gestores y políticos autonómicos con responsabilidad en materia emigratoria. El estudio vislumbra la urgente necesidad tanto de colaboración entre administraciones públicas, como de reactualización de las políticas de emigración en un contexto de crisis económica,
pérdida de población y aumento de la emigración.

Euskonews, No. 696, Apr 1, 2015

En este breve artículo, me gustaría profundizar en las razones que se encuentran detrás del desco... more En este breve artículo, me gustaría profundizar en las razones que se encuentran detrás del desconocimiento de la sociedad vasca en lo referente a las comunidades vascas que residen más allá de las fronteras político-administrativas de Euskadi.

Euskonews, No. 683, Mar 5, 2014

Este breve escrito tiene por objeto vislumbrar algunos de los factores explicativos que podrían e... more Este breve escrito tiene por objeto vislumbrar algunos de los factores explicativos que podrían encontrarse detrás de esta respuesta tan baja relacionada con el “apoyo a los vascos en el extranjero”, a la vez que reflexionar y abrir un debate en torno a la compleja realidad del fenómeno de la migración vasca, y lo que es más importante, a las relaciones que se han generado con la sociedad de origen, y que inducen a formular una serie de preguntas.

Inguruak, Feb 1, 2014

Los grandes movimientos migratorios que se han producido a lo largo de nuestra historia de forma ... more Los grandes movimientos migratorios que se han producido a lo largo de nuestra historia de forma seriada y, en algunos casos, masiva, han configurado un mapa de la movilidad humana que a día de hoy sitúa a un elevado número de vascos residiendo
en el extranjero. El fenómeno de la emigración vasca ha sido relativamente investigado y, sin embargo, la realidad de la emigración de retorno no ha sido lo suficientemente estudiada, a pesar de que algunos investigadores a nivel mundial han
hablado tanto de “remesas económicas” como de “remesas sociales” para enfatizar el impacto económico, cultural y socio-político que los emigrantes y aquellos retornados, con nueva formación, conocimientos y capital, generaban tanto durante
su estancia en el exterior como cuando regresaban a su lugar de origen. Entre 2002 y 2010 regresaron desde el extranjero a Euskadi una media anual de 1.272 personas con nacionalidad española, según la Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales publicada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). El objetivo de nuestro estudio fue analizar las políticas desarrolladas desde el Gobierno Vasco en materia de emigración de retorno y compararlas con las políticas de otras comunidades autónomas
(CCAA) y con las del Estado, para valorar la atención a la población vasca retornada y relacionar perfiles y necesidades a partir de las experiencias de otras CCAA.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jan 1, 2012

"‘Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas’ is an interdisciplinary collection... more "‘Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas’ is an interdisciplinary collection that explores new emerging media and technological networks*developed by individual and family migrants*which help to construct transnational and diasporic communities. Despite the fact that there is an increasing interest in ‘migration’ and in ‘information and communication technology’ studies, this Special Issue of JEMS goes beyond mere description of the use and impact of the technology on human mobility. It provides an in-depth analysis of a wide range of dispersed populations*including Albanians, Arabs, Basques, Croatians, Han, Hindus, Kurds, Romanians, Turks, Salvadorans, Serbians and Sikhs*and their interactions with globe-spanning instruments of information and communication. The issue brings together some of the leading
specialists at the crossroads of migration and emerging technologies. The collection presents empirical and theoretical essays from the social, political and behavioural sciences, while discussing the latest Internet-based research methodologies applied to migration studies."

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"This paper presents the results of original user-based research regarding the Basque diaspora pr... more "This paper presents the results of original user-based research regarding the Basque diaspora presence on social network sites (SNSs). It is the first academic investigation on the users of Basque diaspora-association groups on Facebook, the largest SNS on the Web. It focuses on the online and offline dimensions of the Basque institutional diaspora presence on the World Wide Web. By concentrating on the Basque diaspora case, I draw attention to the implications that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have on international migrant diasporas, with particular emphasis on how migrant
associations and their members perform in a bid to accomplish their activities and goals. The present work opens new venues for future multi- and interdisciplinary analysis as well as comparative and longitudinal studies that could clearly be of interest to researchers, scholars and students of migration and ICTs."

Gobierno Vasco (ed.) Guztion Artean: V Congreso Mundial de Colectividades Vascas en el Exterior, Donostia-San Sebastián, noviembre 2011. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco., 2012

Este artículo gira en torno a la presencia vasca en el exterior de la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca —e... more Este artículo gira en torno a la presencia vasca en el exterior de la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca —entendiendo por exterior más allá de las fronteras de Euskadi— y a los retos que supone la gestión de dicha realidad para la administración pública en dos vertientes que en sí están interrelacionadas y que en ningún caso deberían considerarse espacios estancos: la extensión del Estado del Bienestar a los ciudadanos vascos en el exterior, y el futuro de las propias instituciones de la diáspora vasca.

AEMI Journal, Vol. 9: 22-29, 2011

"This paper aims at presenting an overview of some of the results of my work at the intersection ... more "This paper aims at presenting an overview of some of the results of my work at the intersection between migration
and diaspora studies and Internet and Web studies. My research addresses the potential impact of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) on Basque culture and identity maintenance in the diaspora. It deals with the digital culture created by migrants and their institutions and the need for collecting and preserving it."

"Classical approaches to nationalism and ethnicity have traditionally understood ethnic groups as... more "Classical approaches to nationalism and ethnicity have traditionally understood ethnic groups as ethno-nationalist groups that were irrevocably predisposed to constitute political entities in order to preserve and promote their assumed unique socio-historical and cultural markers. However, we argue that the Basque case illustrates much the opposite. Basque ethnic identity was not only utilized by the Basque nationalist movement, but it helped to form diverse processes of national identifications such as the Spanish, French, or Venezuelan for that matter throughout the nineteenth century. In this sense, the debate on Basque ethnicity is not a marginal issue in the re-elaboration of Spanishness and identity politics on both sides of the Atlantic but a central and main one in the Spanish and Latin American national and state-building discourses."

Sancho el sabio: Revista de cultura e …, Jan 1, 2007

This paper presents the results of content analysis of the successive Basque Autonomous Community... more This paper presents the results of content analysis of the successive Basque Autonomous Community Governments’ ethnonationalist discourses on the Basque diaspora since the restoration of democracy until the present. The paper attempts to gain insight into the current ideological influence in the construction of identity discourses by the diaspora. How has the existence of the BAC and a government, its policies, actions, and ideologies influenced the Basque identity in the diaspora and its institutional discourses?

... The Web text differs from the assumed linearity and sequencing of traditional written media. ... more ... The Web text differs from the assumed linearity and sequencing of traditional written media. · Hypertextuality or intertextuality[6]. Textuality is a central aspect of the Web. ... That is to say, hypertextuality constructs decentered texts in the Web. ...

The purpose of this research is twofold: To ascertain the ways that Basque diaspora institutional... more The purpose of this research is twofold: To ascertain the ways that Basque diaspora institutional web sites represent, reimagine, and redefine Basque identity online; and to ascertain the ways that Basque diaspora institutional web sites represent, reimagine, and redefine ...

En 1957, el vasco-americano Robert Laxalt (1923-2001) publicó Sweet Promised Land (Dulce Tierra P... more En 1957, el vasco-americano Robert Laxalt (1923-2001) publicó Sweet Promised Land (Dulce Tierra Prometida), convirtiéndose en muy poco tiempo en una obra literaria de indudable valor en el mundo de las letras norteamericanas. El libro refleja, a través de lentes vascas, la ...