Immigration in Argentina: a founding myth and a historiographic problem
The essay analyses how Argentine historiography of immigration intertwined with the preponderant role played by immigration in the foundational myth of the Argentine Nation. The changes in the chronological framework used by historians, its relation to the mythical images of immigration, and the ana...
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I10-R285-article-336552025-12-09T21:02:02Z Immigration in Argentina: a founding myth and a historiographic problem La inmigración en la Argentina: un mito fundacional y un problema historiográfico Bjerg, María inmigración identidad Nación historiografía immigration identity nation historiography The essay analyses how Argentine historiography of immigration intertwined with the preponderant role played by immigration in the foundational myth of the Argentine Nation. The changes in the chronological framework used by historians, its relation to the mythical images of immigration, and the analytical implications of a given periodization, are discussed. Historians distanced themselves from the study of non-European migration (mostly Latin American and, in a lesser extent, Asian) a field where sociologists, anthropologists and demographers had maintained a sort of unwanted monopoly. In this regard, the essay holds that this attitude partly relates to the convergence of historiography of immigration with the Argentine foundational myth of a white and European nation, and suggests an alternative to the analytical dichotomy European-non-European migrations in order to include the latter into the historiographical research. El ensayo recorre el itinerario de la historiografía argentina de la inmigración y establece un paralelo entre ésta y el mito fundacional de la identidad nacional que liga a la inmigración con la idea de Nación. Se abordan tanto las variaciones en el recorte temporal utilizado por los historiadores (y su relación con la imagen mítica de la inmigración), como los problemas que involucra la periodización y el hiato analítico entre migraciones europeas de migraciones no-europeas. Asimismo, se propone una posible superación de dicho hiato que involucre a los historiadores en el estudio de las migraciones recientes, un campo involuntariamente monopolizado por la sociología, la antropología y la demografía. Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti” 2016-12-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33655 10.70629/1853.4503.v.n7.33655 Revista Electrónica de Fuentes y Archivos; Núm. 7 (2016); 322 - 329 1853-4503 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33655/33975 Derechos de autor 2016 María Bjerg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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The essay analyses how Argentine historiography of immigration intertwined with the preponderant role played by immigration in the foundational myth of the Argentine Nation. The changes in the chronological framework used by historians, its relation to the mythical images of immigration, and the analytical implications of a given periodization, are discussed. Historians distanced themselves from the study of non-European migration (mostly Latin American and, in a lesser extent, Asian) a field where sociologists, anthropologists and demographers had maintained a sort of unwanted monopoly. In this regard, the essay holds that this attitude partly relates to the convergence of historiography of immigration with the Argentine foundational myth of a white and European nation, and suggests an alternative to the analytical dichotomy European-non-European migrations in order to include the latter into the historiographical research. |
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