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1994 - VOLUME 9, NUMBER 26

Syrian-Lebanese Immigration in Latin america

95.40.1 - Spanish - Oswaldo M.S. TRUZZI, Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Politicos, Sao Paulo (Brazil) Ethnicity and differentiation among Syrian-Lebanese immigrants in Sao Paulo (Etnicidade e diferenciaçao entre imigrantes sirolibaneses em Sao Paulo) (p. 7-46)

Although little studied so far, the Syrian-Lebanese contribute perhaps to one of the most interesting chapters in immigration history in Sao Paulo. The main features of group identity, the reciprocal images of each other among the "colonia" and paulista society are studied here, as well as intra-group differentiation and the elaboration of new identifies. (BRAZIL, SYRIA, LEBANON, IMMIGRATION, ETHNIC MINORITIES)

95.40.2 - Spanish - Dario A. EURAQUE, Department of History, Trinity College, Hartford (U.S.A.) Nation building, mestizaje and Arab immigration in Honduras, 1880-1930 (Formacion nacional, mestizaje, y la inmigracion arabe palestina a Honduras, 1880-1930) (p. 47-66)

Although among intelectuals in Honduras a vision of mestizaje clearly prevails, the powerful Arab-Palestine community is not included in that vision. This essay reveals their presence and the relationship between an assumed "mestizo" Honduras and "Other" Hondurans. Governmental decrees of 1929 and 1934 are analyzed and, to a certain extent, Honduran intelectual indifference toward Palestine history within the context of Honduran mestizo history. (HONDURAS, HISTORY, IMMIGRATION, MISCEGENATION)

95.40.3 - Spanish - Liliana Ana BERTONI, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina) From Turkey to Buenos Aires. A new community at the turn of the century (De Turquia a Buenos Aires. Una colectividad nueva a fines del siglo XIX) (p. 67-94)

Small in number in the 1880s, immigrants coming from the Ottoman Empire became in the eve of World War I one of the most important migration streams and one of the most peculiar communities. In the first place, an analysis of the small group which had settled in Buenos Aires by 1895 involves demographic aspects, the neighborhood where they settled, the patterns of commercial activity, overwhemingly prevailing among them, and the impact their somewhat exotic presence had on the local observers. Two main features of the group are then dealt with: the connection between trade and chain migration, and the connection between trade and their patterns of settlement in Argentina, partly forming tight clusters in major cities, but also partly scattered throughout the country. The study closes with the outbreak of World War I, and the changes in some of the circumstances that had favored the early surge of the community and the prosperity of their members. (ARGENTINA, TURKEY, IMMIGRATION, HISTORY, ETHNIC MINORITIES)

95.40.4 - Spanish - Gladys JOZAMI, Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), Independencia 20, 1099 Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Religious identity and cultural integration among the Syrian and the Lebanese in Argentina, 1890-1990 (Identidad religiosa e integracion cultural en cristianos sirios y libaneses en Argentina, 1890-1990) (p. 95-114)

Through the opposite images of a Muslim and a Christian family, the need to study the Syrian and the Lebanese within the frame of their different national religious identities is stressed. For these oriental people religion had been a way of life, and they tried to preserve their identity in a context marked by a strong familiar structure. (ARGENTINA, SYRIA, LEBANON, MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, ETHNIC MINORITIES)

95.40.5 - Spanish - Ignacio KLICH, University of Westminster, London (U.K.) The possibility of a Palestine settlement in Argentina (1948-1952): A comparative perspective (La posibilidad del asentamiento de palestinos en la Argentina (1948-1952): una perspectiva comparada) (p. 115-142)

On the basis of abundant information, the author states that the expectations that Argentina might serve as a favorable "dumping places" for unwanted emigrants from Israel and other countries was unsubstantiated. He also scrutinises the reasons for Israeli interest in Argentina. Those fostering the chimeric idea of a Palestine settlement in Argentina shared with their Polish and German Nazi counterparts either underestimation or ignorance of the fact that Arabs, Poles and Jews were to a certain extent undesirable in the eyes of Argentine elites. (ARGENTINA, ISRAEL, HISTORY, FORCED MIGRATION)

95.40.6 - Spanish - Jorge Omar BESTENE, Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), Independencia 20, 1099 Buenos Aires (Argentina) The real and the stereotype: The "Turks" in Argentine drama (Realidades y estereotipos: los "turcos" en el teatro argentino) (p. 143-164)

Theater is a very interesting source for the study of "Turkish" immigration in Buenos Aires in the first three decades of this century. Regional, religious and economic aspects of these immigrants are analyzed as well as their integration process in the host society. Through the analysis of drama we gain a valuable insight into different facets of the group's behaviour and their complex and changing relationship with the host society. A preliminary approach to the immigrants' cultural history is sketched. (ARGENTINA, TURKEY, HISTORY, IMMIGRANTS, THEATER)

95.40.7 - Spanish - Michael W. SULEIMAN, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 (U.S.A.) The Arabe people in Latin America: Preliminary bibliography (Los arabes en América Latina: bibliografia preliminar) (p. 165-188)

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