Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing Diasporas and National Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 -- Migrations to Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 -- Migration Studies and Theories of Nationalism -- Interactions between Transnational Migrations and Constructions of National Identities in Latin America -- Diaspora Nationalisms and Homeland Relations -- Migrations and Comparison -- Notes -- Part I: Spaces of Migration -- 1. Migrants, Nations, and Empires in Transition: Native Claims in the Greater Caribbean, 1850s-1930s -- A Region Remade: Islands and Rimlands as the Spanish Empire Receded and U.S. Dominion Expanded, 1850s-1900s -- The Heyday of Labor Migration, 1900s-1920s -- The Temptation of Anti-Asian Demagoguery: 1900s-1920s -- The Interwar Rise of Restrictionist Regimes: The Geopolitics and Labor Politics of Biopolitics -- The "Blaze of Nationalism" among British West Indians at Home and Abroad -- Nativism without Populism: The British Caribbean, 1920s-1930s -- Anti-Immigrant Action, Return Migration, and the Dawn of New Nations, 1930s-1950s -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 2. The Limits of the Cosmic Race: Immigrant and Nation in Mexico, 1850-1950 -- A Nation of Spaniards, "Indians," and Mestizos -- "Whitening" the Mestizo Nation? -- Revolutionary Nationalism and the Closing of the "Cosmic Race" -- Notes -- 3. Immigration, Identity, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1850-1950 -- The Nineteenth-Century Background -- Immigrants at Last -- Identity and Immigration in the Post-1930 Period -- Notes -- 4. Nation and Migration: German-Speaking and Japanese Immigrants in Brazil, 1850-1945 -- Mass Immigration to Brazil, 1850-1945 -- Whitening the Nation -- "Germanness" in Brazil -- The Japanese in Brazil.

Assimilation to the Brazilian Nation: Policies toward Immigrants, 1900-1945 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Migrating Peoples -- 5. Motherlands of Choice: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Identities among Jewish Latin Americans -- Clandestine Practices and Other Colonial Experiences -- Multiple Motherlands in Argentina and Brazil -- Approaches Old and New -- Conclusion: Latin American Homelands Abroad -- Notes -- 6. The Reconstruction of National Identity: German Minorities in Latin America during the First World War -- German Emigration to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile -- The Impact of World War I -- Anti-German Sentiments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. In Search of Legitimacy: Chinese Immigrants and Latin American Nation Building -- Chinese Settlement Patterns in Latin America -- Foreign Bodies and National Battlegrounds -- The Chinese, Mestizaje, and Latin American Nationalisms -- The Problem of Miscegenation -- In Defense of Chinese Communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. British Caribbean Migration and the Racialization of Latin American Nationalisms -- Nation Building, Modernity, and British Caribbean Immigration -- International Racial Discourses, Neocolonialism, and the Brutalities of the Black Immigrant Experience -- Crime, Disease, and Political Disruption: Antiblackness and the Discourse of Racial Danger -- Diaspora Nationalisms and West Indian Exclusion -- Inclusionary Nationalisms and the Limits of Assimilation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Italian Fascism and Diasporic Nationalisms in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay -- Fascism and Italian Migrants -- Explaining Differences -- Risorgimento Nationalism in the Rio de la Plata -- Longue-durée Paths -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. "The Summit of Civilization": Nationalisms among the Arabic-Speaking Colonies in Latin America.

What's in a Name? Ottomans, Syrians, Lebanese, Syrian-Lebanese, Palestinians, and Arabs -- The Ottoman Empire and the Syrian Colonies in the Americas -- The French and British Mandates and the Lebanese and Syrian Colonies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Writing Latin American Nations from Their Borders: Bringing Nationalism and Immigration Histories into Dialogue -- Inserting Latin America into the Global Historiography of Migration -- Immigrant and Nation in Latin America -- Negotiating National Inclusion: Assimilation, Pluralism, and Citizenship -- Conceptualizing Diaspora Nationalisms -- Immigration, Ethnicity, and Latin American Race Formation -- Gendering Immigration Histories -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers helped construct national identities in the Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. In these essays, some of the most respected scholars of migration history examine the range of responses--some welcoming, some xenophobic--to the newcomers. They also look at the lasting effects that Jewish, German, Chinese, Italian, and Syrian immigrants had on the economic, sociocultural, and political institutions. These explorations of assimilation, race formation, and transnationalism enrich our understanding not only of migration to Latin America but also of the impact of immigration on the construction of national identity throughout the world.

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