It is fitting to begin this volume’s investigation of the Basques in New York with a discussion of the future, and not the past, because of the nature of the community here and its presence in this multicultural and transnational capital of the world, the greater metropolitan New York City. The Basque experience here shares little with the communities of the American west, or with those of Central or South America. New York’s proximity to the homeland –closer to Bilbao than it is to Boise- has facilitated constant travel and exchange, and the surrounding influences of living in the immigration gateway to the United States have impacted these Basques’ cosmopolitan definitions of Basqueness.
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