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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787801803321

Titolo

Immigration and national identities in Latin America / / edited by Nicola Foote and Michael Goebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : The University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5046-4

0-8130-5503-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

304.8098

Soggetti

Nationalism - Latin America

Latin America Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Reconceptualizing diasporas and national identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Michael Goebel -- Migrants, nations, and empires in transition: native claims in the greater Caribbean, 1850s-1930s / Lara Putnam -- The limits of the cosmic race: immigrant and nation in Mexico, 1850-1950 / Jürgen Buchenau -- Immigration, identity, and nationalism in Argentina, 1850-1950 / Jeane DeLaney -- Nation and migration: German-speaking and Japanese immigrants in Brazil, 1850-1945 / Frederik Schulze -- Motherlands of choice: ethnicity, belonging, and identities among Jewish Latin Americans / Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein -- The reconstruction of national identity: German minorities in Latin America during the first World War / Stefan Rinke -- In search of legitimacy: Chinese immigrants and Latin American nation building / Kathleen López -- British Caribbean migration and the racialization of Latin American nationalisms / Nicola Foote -- Italian fascism and diasporic nationalisms in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / Michael Goebel -- "The summit of civilization": nationalisms among the Arabic-speaking colonies in Latin America / Steven Hyland Jr. -- Conclusion. Writing Latin American nations from their borders: bringing nationalism and immigration histories into dialogue / Nicola Foote.



Sommario/riassunto

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers helped construct national identities in the Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.  In these essays, some of the most respected scholars of migration history examine the range of responses--some welcoming, some xenophobic--to the newcomers. They also look at the lasting effects that Jewish, German, Chinese, Italian, and