Immigration To Argentina

Immigration To Argentina

Immigration in Argentina, can be divided in several major stages:

• Spanish colonization starting in the 16th century, integrating the indigenous inhabitants (see Population history of American indigenous peoples).
• European immigration in the 19th century (mainly Italian), 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.
• Economic migrants from Korea, China, Central America, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia and from Central Europe and Eastern Europe in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.