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  Immigration in Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
European immigration, including Welsh settlement, in the 19th century, focused on colonization and sponsored by the government (sometimes on lands "freed" of the native inhabitants by the Conquest of the Desert in the last quarter of the century).
Mostly urban immigration during the era of rapid growth in the late 19th century (from 1880 onwards) and the first half of the 20th century, before and after World War I and also after the Spanish Civil War.
A statue in homage of the immigrants, in Rosario.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigration_in_Argentina   (1055 words)

  
 Demographics of Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The official language of Argentina is Spanish, and it is spoken by practically the entire population in several different dialects.
The most common dialect of Spanish in Argentina is Rioplatense Spanish, and it is so named because it evolved in the central areas around the Río de la Plata basin.
Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Argentina   (1438 words)

  
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In the early years of immigration, not many restrictions were placed on the people that were admitted to their new homes, but as the years went by, the hosting countries realized that there were many “undesirables” that should not be accepted, and from there we had restrictions.
The establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association in 1891, and its selection of Argentina as a settlement area for Russian emigres aroused journalists to violent accusations that there was a plot to submerge the nation with two million Jews.
This easy integration and acceptance of the immigrants in Argentina came about because of the tolerance that this country demonstrated and for this reason we might be able to call Argentina a true “melting pot”.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/1/90.01.06.x.html   (4236 words)

  
 Migration Information Source - Argentina's Economic Woes Spur Emigration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Argentina is witnessing an enormous increase in emigration, with Spain, Italy, the United States, and Israel making up the main destinations, according to the country's National Migration Directorate.
Argentina has always been hailed as the "jewel" of Latin America, characterized by an abundance of natural resources, as well as a large and highly educated population.
Argentina has the fourth largest Jewish population in the world, at approximately 200,000 people, all of whom have the right to Israeli citizenship upon immigrating to the country.
www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?ID=146   (1161 words)

  
 Italians in Comodoro Rivadavia - Patagonia Mosaic 2001 - Dickinson College
Italian immigration to Argentina maintains similar aspects throughout its history with exceptions in specific cases and that extends past the boom period into the 20th century, and into cities besides the capital of Buenos Aires, which has both positive and negative effects on the immigrants.
The Italians that immigrated to Argentina during the time period from 1880-1914 represented all the regions of Italy with 46% from the south, 42% from the north, and 12% from the center of the country.
Argentina prepared for the influx of immigrants with the Plan de Gobierno created by the Peronist goverment for the years 1947-51, when official criteria for immigration were established.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/amos/mosaic01pat/projectsItaliansFiorentino.html   (5635 words)

  
 Argentina
The excellent political relationship between the United States and Argentina is increasingly reflected in the U.S. embassy's efforts to facilitate cooperation in nontraditional areas such as counter-terrorism, anti-narcotics, and scientific cooperation on space, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and the environment.
Franchises have been successfully used in Argentina, but obligations of the franchisor must be clearly delineated in the contract to avoid legal obligations associated with the operator, in case of default, bankruptcy, etc. Argentine law is unclear about franchisor obligations in case of bankruptcy or other commercial failings.
Argentina cannot be excluded from the international trend of environmental preservation; present trends of international trade and the new legal framework create important markets that can be developed through international experience.
www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/sam/arg.html   (17764 words)

  
 Migration News
Argentina (36 million population) is a magnet for migrants from Bolivia (seven million), Peru (24 million) and Paraguay (five million).
The countries of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and soon Bolivia are linked in a free-trade area, and there is a long-standing tradition that allows the free transit over borders of residents living within 30 miles of the border.
Argentina in 1991 had five percent foreign-born residents, down sharply from 1914, when one-third of Argentina's residents were born abroad--40 percent of the foreign born were from Italy, and 35 percent from Spain.
migration.ucdavis.edu /MN/more.php?id=1063_0_5_0   (430 words)

  
 DeLaney
In Argentina, the emergence of an ethnocultural understanding of nationhood coincided with, and indeed was in large part precipitated by, a massive influx of European immigrants.
But Argentina, where the idea of the nation as a ethnocultural community gained force at precisely the moment when the country was experiencing massive immigration, represents a unique case.
While immigration did not halt altogether, the economic crisis of the 1930s meant that Argentina would no longer be a principle destination of European emigrants, and from that time on ceased to be a topic of sustained official and public debate.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-2/delaney.html   (13578 words)

  
 Argentina #1
The Jewish community of Argentina, with its more than 200,000 members, is one of the largest Jewish communities in the world,and accounts for about 50% of the Jews of Latin America.
In the fourth period of Jewish immigration to Argentina, Jews, mainly from Germany, fled Europe escaping the madness of the Nazi regime.
The Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, or DAlA, was created in 1935 to protest the rise of Nazism in Germany and later became the political arm of the community.
www.geocities.com /bargfamily/argentina.html   (1570 words)

  
 JANM/INRP-Timeline-Argentina
The Law of Immigration is passed, opening rgentina to foreigners of European origin.
Relations between Argentina and Japan, interrupted in 1945, are resumed.
The Company for the Foment of Japanese Immigration, a semi-governmental entity, is founded to encourage Japanese immigration to Argentina through loans, land purchases and the acquisition of machinery.
www.janm.org /projects/inrp/english/time_argentina.htm   (812 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Argentina
Argentina is the second largest nation in Latin America and boasts the largest Jewish community in the region.
From an open door policy of immigration to the harboring of Nazi war criminals, Argentina’s Jews have faced periods of peaceful coexistence and periods of intense anti-Semitism.
Argentina’s oldest synagogue, Congregacion Israelita de la Republica Argentina, is known as "Libertad" because it is located at Libertad 733 in Buenos Aires.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Argentina.html   (1973 words)

  
 JANM/INRP - Marcelo Higa
Argentina has the third largest population of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Latin America.* At the end of the 1980s, approximately 50,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in Argentina, among whom 70 percent trace their ancestral origins to Okinawa prefecture.
In the general framework of the immigration experience in Argentina, this has been one of the events that have marked the collective and individual lives of the Japanese descendents with the great intensity.
Their achievement was economic as well as social and individual, being associated, one way or other, profoundly to the new positioning or orientation of their identity, assumed by the Japanese descendants in actuality.
www.janm.org /projects/inrp/english/sc_higa.htm   (955 words)

  
 irish1
Immigration in larger numbers began in 1820 and ended in 1889, with the largest numbers arriving between 1840 and 1849, the height of the famine in Ireland.
One of the oldest newspapers in Argentina, it is probably the oldest Irish-community newspaper in any part of the Irish diasphora.
The most famous Irishman in Argentina was Admiral William Brown, who commanded the Argentine Navy during the War of An Irishwoman with a different sort of renown was Camila O'Gorman.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /casamirror/irishimm1.htm   (1379 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Assessment for Jews in Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Argentina's Jews at times face a difficult situation, as some of the more virulent forms of anti-Semitism have migrated across the Atlantic.
Jewish immigration to Argentina occurred in three great waves: first, discovery of the Americas coincided with the expulsion of Jews from Spain; three centuries later, the liberal immigration policies of a newly independent Argentina (1810) brought many French Jews; finally, a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th
After Juan Peron was elected president in 1946, Jewish immigration was officially ended and the country became a haven for Nazi fugitives.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=16001   (887 words)

  
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In this unit I have attempted to look at the concept of immigration in general, and then have focused on immigration to Argentina in particular.
In order to understand the impact of the large scale immigration to Argentina, I also looked briefly at the history of the country, from early Spanish Colony to the modern day nation.
Argentina, due mainly to the overwhelming majority of two similar, national groups, the Italians and the Spaniards among the immigrants, seems to have reached a true “melting pot.”
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/guides/1990/1/90.01.06.x.html   (216 words)

  
 Argentina
The extension may be obtained from the Immigration authorities in Argentina, prior to the expiration of the initial visa.
Non-border nationals can physically remain in Argentina as a visitor while the work permit application is pending approval; however, once the work permit application is approved, the employee and family members must return to their country of legal residence to apply for the work and residence visa.
A foreign national found to be in violation of his/her immigration status risks the penalty of deportation and exclusion from Argentina.
pubweb.fdbl.com /ihp8/global/media85.nsf/public-country-briefs/argentina?opendocument   (2749 words)

  
 The Washington Times - Argentina
Argentina in Latin means “country of silver,” so named for the Indians that brought silver objects to Spanish explorers who landed on their shores.
According to Engineer Hernan Lombardi, secretary of Tourism for Argentina and former secretary of Tourism for the City of Buenos Aires, new hotels are being built throughout the country and, just in the last year alone, the number of airline seats has grown 18.3 percent.
In the center of Argentina, in the provinces of Cordoba, San Luis and Mendoza, projects are planned to promote Argentina’s cultural history of Estancias, the extensive, elegant farms for which Argentina is famous.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /theamericas/00/argentina/11.html   (1505 words)

  
 "A Paradise That Never Was:" Dutch Immigrants in Argentina
The Dutch migration to Argentina was an individual movement for labor and trade, in contrast to the North American folk migration for land and family.
The word in the Netherlands was to avoid Argentina, because the government had failed to meet its obligations to the new agricultural recruits.
Gerardo Oberman, a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church in Argentina and a student of its history, is very harsh in his evaluation of national policies in the 1880s.
www.swierenga.com /Madrid_pap.html   (6333 words)

  
 Argentina history
Documents for the history of Argentina A selection of documents on aspects of Argentina´s history and society.
Argentina at Independence--Geographical Issues Interesting article on the role of geography in the formation of the new state.
Argentina and the United States: Trade, 1914-45 By Donald J.Mabry in the HTS.
www.casahistoria.net /argentina.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Israel Expecting Wave of Immigration From Argentina -- 12/26/2001
Arieh Azoulay is chairman of the Department of Aliya (Immigration) and Absorption for the Jewish Agency, a semi-government organization that is in charge of promoting and aiding Jewish immigration to Israel.
In rioting that raged in Argentina last week, leaving 26 dead and forcing the resignation of President Fernando de la Rua's government, there were no signs of anti-Semitism, he added.
They are given immigration benefits, including tax breaks, financial assistance and Hebrew language training, in order to help them absorb into the society.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200112\FOR20011226f.html   (758 words)

  
 argentina_immigration
South American Immigration: Argentina by Wanda A. Velez of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Colonia Boer: An Afrikaner Settlement in Chubut, Argentina.
Unlike in the other "white" immigrant states, mass immigration was not followed by internal expansion, rather in the case of Argentina, mass European immigration was used to consolidate the internal expansion and existing political structure that had already taken place.
www.casahistoria.net /argentina_immigration.htm   (2306 words)

  
 Israel Prepares for Major Immigration from Argentina, West -- 01/11/2002
The Jewish Agency, a quasi-government organization responsible for immigration to Israel, announced that it would invest millions of additional dollars and focus on reaching out to Jews suffering under difficult conditions in each of those three countries.
The case of Argentina, France and South Africa is not the first time that Israel has acted to aid international Jewish communities in dire straights.
During the first four years of the fledgling state the population of the country more than doubled from an influx of World War II refugees and Jews expelled from Arab countries in protest at the birth of the State of Israel.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200201/FOR20020111c.html   (952 words)

  
 ESTUDIOS MIGRATORIOS LATINOAMERICANOS, 1997, 1998
Within the context of a restrictive immigration policy, there was only a piecemeal entry of Spanish Republicans into Argentina at the end of the 1936-1939 Civil War.
Studies on Italian immigration in Argentina have shown that approaches at the provincial level add to our understanding of migration patterns and processes.
By the end of the 19th century, the increasing Italian immigration to the United States and the perception of their stable settlement arouse greater consideration from the Democratic Party, thus enabling several Italian American leaders -- mostly padroni -- to enter the political arena.
www.cicred.org /rdr/rdr_a/revues/revue95-98/40-95-98_a.html   (2369 words)

  
 Germans in Comodoro Rivadavia - Patagonia Mosaic 2001 - Dickinson College
The principal cause of this marked increase in population was the massive influx of immigrants.
The first Germans in Argentina were footloose mercenaries and adventurous young merchants who drifted to the Rio de la Plata in the unsettled years after the Napoleonic Wars.
His father had immigrated to Argentina in 1924 because there was much unemployment, poverty and hunger in Germany after World War I. His mother followed her husband with their two children in 1927.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/amos/mosaic01pat/projectsGermansKorell.html   (3305 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Martina E. Will on Colonia Boer: An Afrikaner Settlement in Chubut, Argentina
Argentina's Boer colony is distinguished from other such immigrant groups by its extremely small size (a few hundred at arrival), its unique ethnic composition, and the extremely high rates of repatriation (approximately 550-600 people between 1937 and 1939).
Ricchiardi is a decisive figure in the Boer migration to Argentina, but the myths surrounding his marital life are far from pivotal.
The Boers arrived in Argentina just as nationalist sentiment was on the rise, and class and race antagonism, including a strong anti-immigrant movement, came to the fore.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29692864996116   (1690 words)

  
 Moving to Argentina ~ Living In Argentina ~ Real Estate In Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Argentina, with its truly outstanding wines is swiftly becoming a major player in the world market.
Argentina has excellent soil, excellent climate, and has just moved into fifth place in the world as a producer of quality wines.
Argentina has vineyards and wineries for sale and we are Argentina's largest seller of wineries and vineyards.
www.escapeartist.com /argentina/argentina.htm   (2092 words)

  
 Argentina Immigration Requirement + Visa Application + Passport
Passport valid for 6 months required by all except nationals of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay who, for journeys that do not go beyond Argentina and these five countries, may use their national ID cards.
Minors travelling to or from Argentina, if unaccompanied by their parents, must carry their parents' or other legal guardian's authorization to travel, which must be certified by an Argentine Consul if issued abroad.
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www.travel-island.com /immigration.visa/argentina.html   (1456 words)

  
 argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Argentine Jewish community numbering some 250,000 is the largest in Latin America (5th largest in the world) and is distributed among the larger cities of Argentina.
There are 200,000 Jews in Buenos Aires and other significant populations can be found in the larger cities of Argentina.
There are a number of active messianic ministries in Argentina.
www.peopleteams.org /forzionsake/argentina.htm   (264 words)

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