Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)

This paper studies trachoma, an ocular pathology that may cause blindness, in the context of the migratory politics developed in the Argentinean Republic. The detection of the granular conjunctivitis was a reason for rejection from the 1908 until the mid-1940s, despite its decrease started one decad...

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Autores principales: María Silvia Di Liscia, Melisa Fernández Marrón
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5a489d4dafb04090b4e00b92ecb6d52a2021-12-02T10:39:24ZSin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.57786https://doaj.org/article/5a489d4dafb04090b4e00b92ecb6d52a2009-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57786https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper studies trachoma, an ocular pathology that may cause blindness, in the context of the migratory politics developed in the Argentinean Republic. The detection of the granular conjunctivitis was a reason for rejection from the 1908 until the mid-1940s, despite its decrease started one decade before. The disease was also presented as an argument to prevent the entrance of groups of Russian, Polish (Jewish) and Syrian-Lebanese, amongst others. Our aim is to examine the practice used by the agencies that established that system of exclusion, such as the National Department of Migrations and the National Department of Hygiene, based on a regulation which was related to processes of discrimination and xenophobia. Additionally, this article will analyze the strategies elaborated by individuals in order to resist violence, in a country in which the advertised modernity called for the massive entrance of immigrant population.María Silvia Di LisciaMelisa Fernández MarrónCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleArgentinaexclusionimmigrationtrachomabodiesAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2009)
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FR
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topic Argentina
exclusion
immigration
trachoma
bodies
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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spellingShingle Argentina
exclusion
immigration
trachoma
bodies
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
María Silvia Di Liscia
Melisa Fernández Marrón
Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
description This paper studies trachoma, an ocular pathology that may cause blindness, in the context of the migratory politics developed in the Argentinean Republic. The detection of the granular conjunctivitis was a reason for rejection from the 1908 until the mid-1940s, despite its decrease started one decade before. The disease was also presented as an argument to prevent the entrance of groups of Russian, Polish (Jewish) and Syrian-Lebanese, amongst others. Our aim is to examine the practice used by the agencies that established that system of exclusion, such as the National Department of Migrations and the National Department of Hygiene, based on a regulation which was related to processes of discrimination and xenophobia. Additionally, this article will analyze the strategies elaborated by individuals in order to resist violence, in a country in which the advertised modernity called for the massive entrance of immigrant population.
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author María Silvia Di Liscia
Melisa Fernández Marrón
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Melisa Fernández Marrón
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title Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
title_short Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
title_full Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
title_fullStr Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
title_full_unstemmed Sin puerto para el sueño americano. Políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en Argentina (1908-1930)
title_sort sin puerto para el sueño americano. políticas de exclusión, inmigración y tracoma en argentina (1908-1930)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2009
url https://doaj.org/article/5a489d4dafb04090b4e00b92ecb6d52a
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