Subsidized immigration in Argentina and the economic crisis of 1890
Abstract
The vast majority of immigration received by the Argentine Republic throughout its history arrived through spontaneous mechanisms based on relationships of kinship and friendship. However, between 1887 and 1890, during the presidency of Miguel Juárez Celman, an expensive program was proposed to subsidize transatlantic tickets and to create information agencies in European cities, in charge of advertising the conditions of Argentina as a country of immigration. Using edited and unpublished sources from the Departamento General de Inmigración and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, the article analyzes the reasons that prompted this change in the Argentine immigration policy and the problems that led to its failure in 1890.
Keywords: immigration, emigration agencies, subsidized tickets, economic crisis of 1890, Juárez Celman.
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