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The constitute of Argentina have work in a way they encourage a different type of constitution with North America, as Wikipedia article put it
Constitution of Argentina of 1853 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The policy is opened to everyone, but who can afford to get there is another issue altogether. In fact the only people in that period can freely move around is predominately white European, that does not mean the Argentine work thru with White European colonialism
The fact stated in the constitution in Argentina is very clear, EVERYONE can migrate to Argentina, to fill empty land and take up responsibility to support the country. But who can get there is another issue that not in argentine control
Today, we see Indian and Chinese flooding top immigration list in both US and Australian, can you say US and Australia is now being constitutionally colonised by India and China?
They wanted European immigrants. The liberal (in the classical sense) regimes governing Latin American countries like Argentina in the 19th century emphasized European migration.
World History Connected | Vol. 7 No. 3 | Lisa M. Edwards: Paths to Progress in Modern Latin America
While all of Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was affected by the drive to modernize and attract significant levels of foreign investment, few parts of the region experienced the impact of immigration like Argentina. There, a group of liberal intellectuals and statesmen known as the Generation of 1837, in power after 1862, worked to make Argentine culture mirror European culture. Leaders like Domingo F. Sarmiento, Juan Bautista Alberdi, and Bartolome Mitre believed Argentina would achieve progress once it had an educated, urban, and Europeanized population. Like Thomas Jefferson, they envisioned rural areas populated by yeoman farmers growing wheat and raising livestock for the domestic and export markets.
Alberdi famously said that "to govern is to populate."3 He and his colleagues intended for Argentina's population to grow rapidly through European immigration. Argentine policy in the late nineteenth century encouraged immigration by sending colonization agents to Europe, providing new arrivals with several days' housing upon disembarkation in Buenos Aires, and giving them free passage to agricultural worksites in the interior. Argentina's recruitment efforts were supplemented by migrants drawn to cheap transportation and high wages as well as significant numbers of their own countrymen already settled in the nation by the 1880s and 1890s. Between 1870 and 1914, about six million immigrants arrived. The vast majority hailed from Spain and Italy, although Germans, Swiss, French, British, and Russians also arrived in significant numbers. By 1914, 70% of Buenos Aires' population was foreign-born, and 30% of the entire nation's population had been born elsewhere.4 By the late nineteenth century, easier and cheaper transportation by steamship and railroad had created a global labor market, and Latin America played an important part in it.
Like many European migrants who moved around their own region and to Australia, the United States, and Canada, immigrants to Latin America arrived primarily in search of work, and a large number intended to return to their homelands. Some were known as golondrinas, the swallows, because they migrated seasonally, while others stayed for years before returning home. Over the long term, just over half of the new arrivals who landed in Buenos Aires during this period remained in Argentina; 2.7 million of the 5.9 million total arrivals eventually returned to Europe.5
The liberal Argentine regime discriminated against Natives and Mestizos in favor of white Creoles and European migrants.
The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
Argentina: The Port and the Nation
The port of Buenos Aires dominated the region of Rio de la Plata. In the 1820s, liberal government was established in the port that sought to stimulate the economy. The leader's preference for a strong, central government provoked the opposition of cattlemen in the plains outside the port. By 1831, a conservative government under Juan Manuel de Rosas replaced the liberals. Rosas's federalism favored the ranchers at the expense of Indians. After Rosas's fall in 1852, a period of political confusion ensued until the creation of a united Argentine Republic in 1862. Liberal reformers sought to manipulate the economic boom after the 1860s. Using profits from increased trade, the liberal government established education systems, built roads, and constructed railroads. The liberal government carried out the final conquest of Indians in Argentina.
Old Patterns of Gender, Class, and Race
Women, many of whom had been active in the independence movements, gained little power during the 19th century. They were excluded from active participation in politics and remained subject to patriarchal authority in their households. The one area of advance for women was broader access to public education and subsequently to positions as teachers. By the end of the 19th century, educated women were in the forefront of the nascent feminist movement in Latin America. Although legal distinctions were often removed, the old social hierarchy based on color and ethnicity was tacitly retained. Indians remained virtually outside the social system of Creoles and mestizos. Socially and economically, the liberal decades led to increasing control of resources, including land, by an elite of white Creoles. After the 1870s, economic change and immigration fostered the creation of greater urban centers, but Latin America remained predominantly agrarian and dependent on the world trade system.
Global Connections: New Latin American Nations and the World
During the 19th century, the former colonies of Latin America constructed new nations. There were many difficulties. Latin America was forced to forge economies in a world trade network already dominated by European nations. Unlike much of the developing world, Latin America cast off European imperialism in the 19th century. The new nations carried with them colonial social systems that were strictly hierarchical and in which a small Creole elite dominated the economy and politics. Native Americans, former slaves, and peasants shared little in the economic expansion of the second half of the century. In a sense, Latin America was the first region of the world to undergo the problems of decolonization. Latin America maintained ties to the West by imitating Western models and because of the growing influence of the United States. Its dependent economy also kept it connected to the world.
