Inmigración, etnicidad y xenofobia en la Argentina: la masacre de Tandil

Abstract

Milenarism and xenophobia combined in the gaucho revolt of Tandil (Argentina), in 1872. At the origins of this movement lie the regional and provincial oposition against the centralism of Buenos Aires, the enclosure of lands which menaced the traditional gaucho itinerancy, the growth of agro-exporting capitalism at the expense of internal markets and commerce, and the decisive growth of European massive inmigration. Prompted by the social and provincial power-groups, the gauchos imagined the emergence of a millenarian utopia only in the Argentine Pampas only after the violent extermination of all foreigners, perceived as major cause for the collapse of their traditional society.