Migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Latin America /
Scholarship 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | Jewish Latin America ;
v. 12. |
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| Summary: | Scholarship 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 other 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004432239 900443223X |