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Jews And Arabs In Argentina: A Study Of The Integration, Interactions And Ethnic Identification Of Argentina's Migrant Groups, Fayola Kj Fraser
Jews And Arabs In Argentina: A Study Of The Integration, Interactions And Ethnic Identification Of Argentina's Migrant Groups, Fayola Kj Fraser
Senior Theses and Projects
This study will focus on the Jewish and Arab migrant groups in Argentina. By honing in on specifically (exclusively) Jewish and Arab barrios in Argentina, numerous questions will be raised on both populations’ identity in society and relationship to each other and their relative “homelands”.
Firstly, the thesis will examine the historic migration of both the Jewish and Arab populations to Argentina. Jews comprise approximately 250,000 of those Argentina’s population, and boast one of the largest diasporic Jewish populations in the world. Arab Argentines are one of the biggest Arab ethnic groups in Latin America and in the world.
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