Transatlantic Battles. European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars

MARÍA INÉS TATO (EDITORA)

Brill Publishing

Lugar: Leiden; Año: 2022 p. 215

978-90-04-52000-4

How did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars.