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Juan Bautista Alberdi and his Influence on Immigration Policy in the Argentine Constitution of 1853

1948; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/978129

1533-6247

Sam Schulman,

Historical Studies in Latin America

Juan Bautista Alberdi is a name not often heard in the United States, even among students of Hispanic-American affairs. Many of his Argentine compatriots and contemporaries are well known to us; we repeat their names as easily as we do those of our own national heroes: Sarmiento, Mitre, Echeverría. Yet the position of Alberdi in the historical development of the Argentine Republic is one of high honor and extreme importance. He is called “The Father of the Argentine Constitution,” and, indeed, such he was. Yet, even more important than this, Alberdi’s arguments in favor of a vast, all-encompassing program of immigration, was the impetus that stimulated his native country and made Argentina the most forward-moving and politically successful nation in Latin America.