ABSTRACT
In the aftermath of World War II, Argentina became once again a desirable destination for European immigrants. As a whole, the Argentine migration policies of the period 1946–1965 aimed at promoting European immigration, with selective standards that clearly linked migration to the developmental needs of the country. This chapter studies how Argentina’s migration policies were shaped into a global context that prioritized development and examines the ways national strategies interacted with the political and economic priorities of the “Western world”. The first section focuses on the migration policies of Peron’s governments (1946–1955), that linked European inflows to his development plans, in which industrialization was to play a major role. The second section studies the place that Argentina occupied in the post–World War II international migration management system, implemented through a new institutional machinery that aimed to manage human mobility in the “free world”. The last part examines the migration–development nexus in the policies of Arturo Frondizi’s government (1958–1962), considered as Argentina’s “developmentalist” period per excellence.
