THE NEW IMMIGRATION FROM SUB SAHARAN AFRICA IN ARGENTINA. ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE INCREASING VISIBILIZATION PROCESS OF THE LOCAL AFRO DESCENDANT COMMUNITY - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2014v64p539

Autor: Marta Mercedes Maffia
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Iss 64 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0304-2340
1984-1841
Popis: ABSTRACT The Cape Verdeans were the main immigrant contingents arriving in Argentina from the Sub Saharan Africa, between the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Since around the 1990s, immigrants began to arrive from different countries of that region (Senegalese, Nigerian, Congolese, Ghanaian, among others), increasing since the year 2000. This paper aims, firstly, to characterize this new migration taking into account: tendencies and patters of the mentioned African region: the migratory policies increasingly restrictive of the main “Northern” countries, and especially, the political, economic and migratory changes in Argentina taking place in the last two decades. Secondly, our purpose it to analyze the role that these immigrants play in the formation and recreation of social spaces together with other Africans already living in the country and with Afro descendants, as regards the increasing process of visibilization and fight for citizens’ rights that is being carried out in Argentina. KEYWORDS: Sub Saharan immigrants. Afro descendants. Visibilization. Argentina. Citizenship.
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