Why did European emigrants go to Latin America, and what did governments do to attract them? What role did they play in the economies of Argentina and Brazil, both in the cities and in rural areas? What role did they play in the development of Latin American labour movements? Would it be true to say that immigration created much greater social problems than Latin American elites had imagined, and also that it proved much more difficult to integrate them into local society? Did some nationalities integrate more easily than others?
R. Graham (ed.), The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
W. Nugent (ed.), Crossings: the great transatlantic migrations, 1870-1914
*S.L. Baily, 'Marriage Patterns and Immigrant Assimilation in Buenos Aires, 1882-1923', HAHR 60 (1980), 32-48
J.L. Blackwelder & L.L. Johnson, 'Changing Criminal Patterns in Buenos Aires, 1890-1914', JLAS 14 (1982), 359-379
*F.J. DeVoto, `Italian Emigrants and Argentine Society: problems of models and sources', Jnl. European Econ. Hist. 19 (1991), 329-352
J.C. Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930
R. Munck, ‘Mutual Benefit Societies in Argentina: workers, nationality, social security and trade unionism’, JLAS 30 (1998), 573-590
J.R. Scobie, Revolution on the Pampas
C. Solberg, 'Immigration and Social Problems in Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914', HAHR 49 (1969), 215-232
C. Solberg, 'Peopling the Pampas and the Prairies: the impact of immigration on Argentine and Canadian agrarian development, 1870-1930', JIASWA 24 (1982), 131-162
*M.D. Szuchmann, `The Limits of the Melting Pot in Urban Argentina: marriage and integration in Córdoba', HAHR 57 (1977), 24-50
A.M. Taylor, ‘Peopling the Pampa: on the impact of mass migrations to the River Plate, 1870-1914’, Explorations in Economic History 34 (1997), 100-132 [rather quantitative in approach]
E.A. Zimmerman, `Racial Ideas and Social Reform: Argentina, 1880-1916', HAHR 72 (1992), 23-46
American Historical Review 88 (1983) contains a forum on Argentine immigration with key articles by H.S. Klein & S.L. Baily
G.R. Andrews, 'Black and White Workers: São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1928', HAHR 68 (1988), 407-428
T.H. Holloway, 'Immigration and Abolition: the transition from slave to free labor in the Sao Paulo coffee zone', in D. Alden & W. Dean (eds.), Essays concerning the Socio-Economic History of Brazil and Portuguese India
T.H. Holloway, 'Immigration in the Rural South', in M.L. Conniff & F.D. McCann, Modern Brazil: elites and masses in historical perspective, pp. 140-160
T.H. Holloway, Immigrants on the Land: coffee and society in São Paulo, 1886-1934
*H.S. Klein, 'The Social and Economic Integration of Portuguese Immigrants in Brazil in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', JLAS 23 (1991), 309-338
H.S. Klein, ‘The Social and Economic Integration of Spanish Immigrants in Brazil’, JSH 25 (1992), 505-529
T. Makabe, ‘Ethnic Hegemony: the Japanese Brazilians in agriculture’, Ethnic & Racial Studs. 22 (1999), 702-723
S.L. Maram, 'The Immigrant and the Brazilian Labor Movement, 1890-1920', in Alden & Dean, Essays [see above]
*V. Stolcke & M.M. Hall, 'The Introduction of Free Labor on São Paulo Coffee Plantations', Jnl. Peasant Studs. 10 (1983), 170-200
V. Stolcke, 'The Exploitation of Family Morality: labor systems and family structure on São Paulo coffee plantations, 1850-1979', in R.T. Smith (ed.), Kinship, Ideology and Practice in Latin America [note there is also a book by Stolcke on this theme]