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Book SynopsisScholarship 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 studies of indigeneity or blackness are set. The role of post-independence immigration from eastern and western Europe—as well as from Asia, Africa, and Latin-American countries—in constructing the national ethnic landscape remains understudied. The contributors of this volume focus their attention on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.
Trade Review"This edited volume presents a useful contribution to the migration history of Latin America, situated squarely in the transdisciplinary field of migration studies and following the equally interesting 2017 volume by two of the coeditors. (...) Among the most fascinating chapters are the three that focus on inter-American migratory flows by addressing US immigrants in Costa Rica, Colombian women in Ecuador (many of whom received asylum), and the Franco-Brazilian borderlands." - Edward Blumenthal, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, HAHR November 2021.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 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 Rubinstein 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 Jurgen Buchenau and Jerry Dávila Index
