Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America

Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Sourasky Professor of History, Head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center and Vice President of Tel Aviv University. His most recent book is Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina (2020).Stefan Rinke, Dr. phil. (1995), Dr. habil. (2003), Catholic University of Eichstätt, is Professor of Latin American History at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and was an Einstein Research Fellow 2013-2015. Amongst his most recent publications is Conquistadoren und Azteken: Hernán Cortés und die Eroberung Mexikos (2019).David M.K. Sheinin (Trent University) is Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War.

"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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Contributors1 IntroductionRaanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, and David M.K. Sheinin2 In Search of Wandering Husbands: Jewish Migration, Desertion, and Divorce between Poland and Argentina, 1919–1939Lelia Stadler3 Indifference, Hostility, and Pragmatism: an X-Ray of Chilean Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews, 1932–1940Gustavo Guzmán4 Diplomacy and Ethnicity: Germans in Brazil (1933–1938)Vinícius Bivar5 Constructing a Transnational Identity: the Three Phases of Palestinian Immigration to Chile, 1900–1950Hagai Rubinstein6 Political Immigrants: the “Chileanization” of Arabs and Jews and Their Class Subjectivities, 1930–1970Claudia Stern7 Over the Rainbow: Costa Rica as a “Geography of Meaning” for U.S. American Immigrants, 1945–1980Atalia Shragai8 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 Krupnik9 Missing Jews: the Memory of Dictatorship in Argentina and the Jewish Identity Diplomacy of José SidermanDavid M.K. Sheinin10 Crisscrossing the Oyapock River: Entangled Histories and Fluid Identities in the French-Brazilian BorderlandFabio Santos11 Together Un-united: Muslims in the Triple Frontier on the Defensive against Accusations of TerrorismOmri Elmaleh12 Los muchachos Peronistas Japoneses: the Peronist Movement and the NikkeiRaanan Rein, Aya Udagawa, and Pablo Adrián Vázquez13 Identity Diversity among Chinese Immigrants and Their Descendants in Buenos AiresSusana Brauner and Rayén Torres14 “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 EcuadorAndrea Romo-Pérez15 Concluding Essay: Rethinking Latin America in the New Ethnic StudiesJurgen Buchenau and Jerry DávilaIndex