Emigration to Indies and conjugal failure

Abstract

In the consolidation period of the conquest of the New World, the crown was to mark a political policy of clearly populating the Indies through the migratory flow since the XVI century. This guides us to an analysis of this phenomenon and its consequences both in the Old World as in the New World. There are a lot of writings about the impact that caused the presence of the Occident man in American lands, however we have to conduce our look to the other side of Atlantic for realize that this emigration, mainly masculine, rebounded in different ways in the familiar structures of the Old Government and in the life of many women, that had the husbands absents in Indies. Right after the leaving of the familiar nucleus and right after the conjugal failure is an evident fact, the women as the heads of family face up to their new social reality through the report before civil and ecclesiastic authorities.