ISBN:
9781503611740
,
9781503613010
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 229 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
DDC:
982
Keywords:
Arabs History
;
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Middle Easterners History
;
HISTORY / Latin America / General
;
Lateinamerika
;
Naher Osten
;
Anthropologie
;
Migration
;
Einwanderung
;
Argentinien
;
Islamische Staaten
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Internationale Politik
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was an immigrant—twice the demographic impact that the United States experienced in the boom period. In this context, some 140,000 Ottoman Syrians came to Argentina prior to World War I, and over the following decades, Middle Eastern communities, institutions, and businesses dotted the landscape of Argentina from bustling Buenos Aires to its most remote frontiers. Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migrant-homeland ties, and international relations. Ranging from the nineteenth-century boom in transoceanic migration to twenty-first century dynamics of large-scale migration and displacement in the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean, this book considers key themes such as cultural production, philanthropy, anti-imperial activism, and financial networks over the course of several generations of this diasporic community. Balloffet's study situates this transregional history of Argentina and the Middle East within a larger story of South-South alliances, solidarities, and exchanges. About the author: Lily Pearl Balloffet is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining Nation and Migration -- 2. From Mesopotamia to Patagonia -- 3. Art in Motion, Motion in Art -- 4. Moving Money, Mobilizing Networks -- 5. South-South Visions in the Cold War -- 6. Enduring Ties -- Epilogue: Somos Sur -- Notes -- Index
Note:
In English
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