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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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti”
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33655 |
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| Sumario: | 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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