Migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Latin America / edited by Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, David M.K. Sheinin.

"Scholarship on ethnicity in modern Latin America has traditionally understood the region's various societies as fusions of people of European, indigenous, and/or African descent. These are often deployed as stable categories, with European or "white" as a monolith against which...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Rein, Raanan, 1960- (Editor), Rinke, Stefan, 1965- (Editor), Sheinin, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Jewish Latin America ; v. 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, and David M.K. Sheinin
  • 2. In search of wandering husbands : Jewish migration, desertion, and divorce between Poland and Argentina, 1919-1939 / Lelia Stadler
  • 3. Indifference, hostility, and pragmatism : an x-ray of Chilean right-wing attitudes toward Jews, 1932-1940 / Gustavo Guzmán
  • 4. Diplomacy and ethnicity : Germans in Brazil (1933-1938) / Vinícius Bivar
  • 5. Constructing a transnational identity : the three phases of Palestinian immigration to Chile, 1900-1950 / Hagai Rubenstein
  • 6. Political immigrants : the "Chileanization" of Arabs and Jews and their class subjectivities, 1930-1970 / Claudia Stern
  • 7. Over the rainbow : Costa Rica as a "geography of meaning" for U.S. American immigrants, 1945-1980 / Atalia Shragai
  • 8. Unsafe havens for Jewish-Argentine migrants : the rise and fall of the third Peronist government and the traumatic effects of the 1973 Yom Kippur War / Adrián Krupnik
  • 9. Missing Jews : the memory of dictatorship in Argentina and the Jewish identity diplomacy of José Siderman / David M.K. Sheinin
  • 10. Crisscrossing the Oyapock River : entangled histories and fluid identities in the French-Brazilian borderland / Fabio Santos
  • 11. Together un-united : Muslims in the Triple Frontier on the defensive against accusations of terrorism / Omri Elmaleh
  • 12. Los muchachos peronistas japoneses : the Peronist movement and the Nikkei / Raanan Rein, Aya Udagawa, and Pablo Adrián Vázquez
  • 13. Identity diversity among Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Buenos Aires / Susana Brauner and Rayén Torres
  • 14. "We Colombian women are damned no matter what we do" : an analysis of police officers' perceptions and Colombian women's experiences during their arrest in Ecuador / Andrea Romo-Pérez
  • 15. Concluding essay : rethinking Latin America in the new ethnic studies / Jürgen Buchenau and Jerry Dávila.