Greek Emigration to Latin America: 1900-1950 by Alexander Kitroeff
GREEK EMIGRATION TO LATIN AMERICA: 1900-1950 By Alexander Kitroeff Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol 26/1 - Year 2000 ----- ALEXANDER KITROEFF teaches European History at Haverford College.. ----- From the article: There are currently about 50,000 Greeks living throughout Latin America, most of whom emigrated after the Second World War (Agapitidis, 1964; Katsomalos 1972). Earlier, emigration from Greece to Latin America, during the first half of the twentieth century, was so small it hardly seems worth the trouble examining. Only a few thousand people left Greece, or the Greekinhabited regions of the Ottoman empire, and settled in Latin America. By comparison, over the same period almost half a million Greeks emigrated to the United States. Between 1900 and 1945, even Canada witnessed the arrival of many more Greeks than any single Latin American country. Nonetheless, Greek emigration to Latin America, despite its small pro...
