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In the city of Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century, a police publication entitled Galería de Ladrones Conocidos was released. It compiled a series of photographic portraits and filiation data of suspects and recidivists who frequented police stations. By revealing the relationships and tensions between racial categories and photographs, I will analyze how police classifications configure a dynamic of hyper-embrace visual whiteness. At the same time, the paper presents the idea of mestizo images which makes it possible to dislocate the hegemonic notion of miscegenation conceived as a process of social whitening.

This study analyses the contact between Spanish and Italian in the Italian linguistic landscape (LL) of Buenos Aires, from the most ancient layers (together with their linguistic innovations) to the most recent ones, resulting from a commodification of the Italian culture and identity. The focus is on the gastronomy and catering sector in Avenida Corrientes, as well as the neighbourhoods of San Telmo, Palermo and Retiro. The paper aims at identifying signs of the migration memory embedded and visible in the LL.

It is well known that the development of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) had profound repercussions on Argentine society and on the large community of Spanish immigrants residing in the country. These segments were actively mobilized and promoted a broad solidarity flow in the context of the war in their homeland. In order to contribute to the better knowledge of this topic, This paper aims to analyze the distinctive characteristics that acquired the participation of Spanish migrants within the organizations and groups of solidarity that were founded in the Argentine capital in order to help rebellious fraction of the peninsular army.

This paper explores the process of migration towards Latin America in Val de San Lorenzo (León, Spain) during the first half of the XX century.Drawing on ethnography and history, the study analyses the local and regional evolution of the area, the causes that triggered the migration process and, especially,the consequences that the phenomenon had in the village. This includes aspects such as socialist and liberal political influences, socioeconomic changes and sponsorship works, the industrialisation of textile industries or the transformation of material culture and dress, which informs about aspects of identity and memory in relation to architecture and modernisation. Finally, a comprehensive summary of the history of the ‘Centro Val de San Lorenzo’ in Buenos Aires, the society of local and county people created by migrants from the village is carried out.

The aim of this paper is to outline – in the work of Washington Cucurto, pseudonym of Santiago Vega – the literary representations of a contemporary Buenos Aires marked by the experience of immigration. Even if the production of a new language and a new geographic and literary space for the city places Cucurto in the tradition of modern literature, the way his work restate that experience implies a innovative approach to the immigration phenomenon.

The article compares the historical development of urban utilities in the cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba, focusing on the relation between markets, firms and technology. Based on governmental reports and statistics, annual reports and company ?les, it analyzes the evolution of electric utilities in Argentina from the creation of urban networks by foreign companies until the nationalization of the systems. The comparative analysis of the types of investment, the technological styles and the firms strategies in different markets shows the effects on the structure of Argentinean electric utility system caused by two distinct patterns of investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]