Aknowledgments.

List of contributions.

Inroduction. Ren, Rinke and Shenin.

2. In search of wandering husbands; Jewish migration, deserion and divorce between an Argentina, 1919-1939. Lelia Stadler.

3. Indifference, hostility and pragmatism: an X-Ray of chilean right-wiing attiudes toward jews, 1932-1940. Gustavo Guzmán.

4. Constructing a transnational identity: the three phases of paletinian inmigration to Chile. Hagai Rubinstein.

5.Diplomacy and ethnicity: germans in Brasil (1933-1938). Vinícius Bivar.

6. Political inmigrants: the chilenization" of arabs an jews and their class subjectivities, 1930-1970. Claudia Stern.

7. Over the rainbow: Costa Rica as a "Geography of meaning" for US. American Inmigrations, 1945-1980. Atalia Shragai.

8. Unsafe havens for jewish-Argentine migrants: the rise and falla of the third peronist government and the traumatic effects of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Adrián Krupnik.

9. Missin jews; the memory of dictatorship in Argenina an the jewish identity diplomacy of José Siderman. David M. K. Sheinin.

10. Crisscrossin the oyapock river: estangled histories and fluid identties in the french - brazilia borderland. Fabio Santos.

11. Together un -united: muslims in the triple frontier on de the defensive against accusations of terrorism. Omri Elmaleh.

12. Los muchachos peronistas japoneses: the Peronist Movement and the Nikkel. Raanan Rein, Aya Udagawa and Pablo Adrián Vázquez.

13. Identifity diversity amon chinese inmigrants ant their descedants. Susana Brauner and Rayéen Torres.

14. "We colombian women are damned no matter what we do": an analyssis of police officers' persceptions an Colombian women's experiencia during thei arrest in Ecuador. Andrea Romo Pérez.

15. Concluding essay: rethiinking latin america in the new ethnic studies. Jurgen Buchanan and Jerry Dávila.

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