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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Rein, Raanan, 1960- (Éditeur intellectuel), Rinke, Stefan, 1965- (Éditeur intellectuel), Sheinin, David (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Collection:Jewish Latin America ; v. 12.
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004432246
9004432248
ISSN:2211-0968 ;