Tropic and race. Miguel Jiménez López and the Japanese Immigration in Colombia, 1920-1929
This article discusses the debate on immigration in Colombia, specifically focusing on Japanese immigration, an problem, by being so far from the desired European immigration. Likewise, the important role played by the psychiatrist and conservative Colombian politician Miguel Jiménez Lopez and his t...
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Human and Economic Sciences Faculty, National University of Colombia (Medellín)
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/59366 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-020&d=article59366oai |
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| Sumario: | This article discusses the debate on immigration in
Colombia, specifically focusing on Japanese immigration, an problem, by being
so far from the desired European immigration. Likewise, the important role
played by the psychiatrist and conservative Colombian politician Miguel Jiménez
Lopez and his theory of degeneration of the Colombian race. Jiménez Lopez is
the author of "The yellow immigration in the America", a publication
of the National Academy of Medicine, written in response to the Ministry of
Industries about the question for the possible impact of a Japanese immigration
in the eastern plains. Jiménez Lopez maintains the problem from medicalization
and biology, using more arguments from geographical determinism and racism that
from eugenics, to justify that a Japanese immigration to Colombia was not
advisable, because it jeopardizes the progressive bleaching managed —with the
passage of time— by the Colombian race. |
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