Memorializing Migration: Immigrant Patronage, Public Memory and the Syrian Centennial Monument to Argentina

Olivia Wolf

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41329-3_2

Memorializing Migration: Immigrant Patronage, Public Memory and the Syrian Centennial Monument to Argentina

Olivia Wolf

Department of Fine and Performing Arts

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Abstract

Debates surrounding immigration came to an apex during Argentina’s Centennial in 1910, when the country honoured the 100-year anniversary of its declared independence. Amidst the monuments sponsored by immigrant groups for the event, the first memorial built by a Middle Eastern diaspora community emerged—the Monument of the Syrian Residents to the Argentine Nation, 1810–1910. The sculpture reflects the construction of revised collective memories and transnational identities. By unpacking migrant flows and ideologies that travelled from the Eastern Mediterranean to Argentina, the Syrian monument reveals itself as a strategic tool for its patrons in the urban fabric. Its tangible form, along with theoretical frameworks of memory and performativity, illustrates how this monument countered anti-immigrant discourses while crafting transregional allegiances and idealized memories of migration.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41329-3_2
State	Published - 2020

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Arts and Humanities

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