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Buenos Aires
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descendants of either the Spaniards who settled in the 16th century or the millions of
European immigrants who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The
mestizo
(mixed Indian and European) and Indian populations, once a majority, have been assimilated
into the general population. As a distinct ethnic group they now number about 30,000.
Blacks, as everywhere else in the western hemisphere, were brought in as slaves, but as a
separate racial group have virtually disappeared. The largest groups of immigrants to
Argentina were Italians(44%) and Spaniards(31%). Other western Europeans accounted for
less than 10% of the immigrants. Eastern Europeans made up about 9% of the new immigrants.
Since the 1950's many Paraguayans, Bolivians and Chileans have entered Argentina. The
Jewish population of 500,000 is the largest in Latin America and the fifth largest in the
world.
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Argentina.
The name of administrator is CEMLA (Centro de estudios migratorios latinoamericanos)
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CEMLA
Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos
Independencia 20 - 1099 Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Tel +54 11 4342 6749
Fax +54 11 4331 0832
http://www.scalabrini.org/
cemla@ciudad.com.ar
Foreigners resident in Buenos Ayres in 1863
listed in M. G. and E. T. Mulhall, "The River Plate
Handbook for 1863"
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J. Unsworth |
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South American
Packets: The British Packet Service to Brazil and the River Plate, the
West Coast (via
the Straits of Magellan) and the Falkland Islands, 1808-1880 Postal
History Society, 1984 283pp. ISBN 0 900657 95 2
The detailed story of mail
communications between England and South America during a large part of
the nineteenth century.
written by Jeremy Howat.
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Send e-mail to:
Bob Unsworth