ABSTRACT
It is estimated that Argentina received over 7 million immigrants, predominantly from Spain and Italy, between 1870 and 1930 (Jachimowicz, 2006). The vast majority of Argentinean population is of European descent (Laplante, 2009). From 1870 to 1910, Argentina received 3.5 million immigrants (Ferenczi and Willcox 1929). The number of immigrants from Spain to Argentina was especially high for 1900-1910, approximately 3 million (Balderas and Greenwood, 2009). At the time, Argentina provided travel subsidies to immigrants, which could account for the influx of immigrants. In the 1860s, Arab immigrants arrived in Argentina from what are now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, and parts of Jordan (Civantos, 2001). Another notable influx came in the 1980s when Lebanese immigrants arrived in Argentina fleeing the Lebanese civil war.
