Resumen

PRIMERA GARCES, Maye. The return of "poor whites": An approach to immigration policy and the Spanish Canary Islands to Venezuela from 1830 promoted. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2010, vol.20, n.53, pp.060-081. ISSN 1315-9496.

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, immigration from the Canary Islands has been constant and most important among those who have inhabited the territory of Venezuela, in terms of number of individuals and degrees of miscegenation. They came, mostly, the lowest estate of society and were known as poor whites, white side, islanders Guanches and not Spanish, and were considered, with all the limitations of the case, as brown or mulatto. When the process of Independence broke the humblest joined the ranks of the Crown to rebel against the elite that segregated and oppressed, and suffered the ravages of war to the death. From "brown" or "mulatto" became "enemies of the cause" and, together with the Spanish, were expelled.

Palabras clave : Canary Islands; immigration; slavery.