“Hvad de skrifva i tidningare i Stockholm” Prensa y opinión pública en Suecia ante la emigración temprana a América (1861-1865)

Abstract

In this article we analyze how Swedish press understood emigration to
America during the years between 1861 and 1865, when the American
Civil War was ongoing. The United Stated already were, by then, the
most important recipient of Swedish immigrants abroad, in a process
that would last up to the third decade of the 20th century. Based upon a
corpus of almost a thousand articles and news, we study how the early
public opinion on emigration was created. In contrast with what characterized
the first third of the 20th century, by the middle of the 19th
century the Swedish newspapers offered a quite equidistant, almost positive
view on emigration.