Desarticulando el "mito blanco": inmigración coreana en Buenos Aires e imaginarios nacionales

Abstract

Through a series of interviews and field investigations, this work examines the phenomenon of Korean immigration in Argentina in the last decades, highlighting the cultural aspects which constitute new ways of dismantling the traditional Argentinean identity as "white" or "European." The paper also analyzes the distinct attitudes of Korean and Korean descendents in Argentina, as well as those of Argentineans—and especially porteños—in the construction of mutual collective imaginaries. These have proven to be more porous to the alterity than the native identities (which are no less imaginary) on which they are based.