El Comercio Migrant Association Database

This dataset contains information from a corpus of several thousand advertisements published by migrant associations in the classifieds section of Peru's main daily paper, El Comercio (Lima), from 1906 to 1933. The associations recorded in the dataset were established by internal migrants living in Lima, Peru. Each association represented migrants from a specific region or town, generally in the Andean highland regions of Peru. Information is recorded in two spreadsheets: \"Associations\" and \"Articles.\" The first contains information on the associations, and the second contains information on advertisements published in El Comercio by those associations. These announcements typically concerned upcoming and past meetings, elections and other association activities. In aggregate, the dataset reveals patterns in association activity that in turn illuminate the history of internal migration in early-20th century Peru.