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.
Read more about Immigration To Argentina: Support and Control of Immigration, Features of Immigration, Legacy of Immigration, Immigration in The Recent Times, Country of Birth of Argentine Residents
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“The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)