Migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Latin America / edited by Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, David M.K. Sheinin.

• Superior document: Jewish Latin America ; Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Rein, Raanan, 1960-; Sheinin, David,; Rinke, Stefan, 1965-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin America ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004432248
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, David M.K. Sheinin.

Scholarship on ethnicity in modern Latin America has traditionally understood the region’s various societies as fusions of people of European, indigenous, and/or African descent. These are often deployed as stable categories, with European or “white” as a monolith against which studies of indigeneity or blackness are set. The role of post-independence immigration from eastern and western Europe—as well as from Asia, Africa, and Latin-American countries—in constructing the national ethnic landscape remains understudied. The contributors of this volume focus their attention on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.