The immigrants contributions in Uruguay

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Felipe Arocena

Abstract

This is a comparative study of nine communities about immigrants and people of African descent were shaping the culture of Uruguay, a small country in South America. The most common image of this country, both nationally and internationally, is that of a homogeneous society and Europeanized, built on immigrants from Spain and Italy, with a small population of African and non natives. This picture is only half true because they also have been possible without the contributions of immigrants from Asia, Russia, other European and African slaves and their free descendants. Specifically discuss how people of African descent, Basques, Italians, Swiss, Russians, Armenians, Lebanese, Jews, Muslims and Peruvians, have contributed to the construction of the Uruguayan nation. This article presents the most relevant conclusions of an investigation based on nearly one hundred in-depth interviews with members of these communities.
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Keywords

assimilation, multiculturalism, immigration, Uruguay

Section
Research Articles