Identity in conflict: the Lithuanian imigrants in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay (1920-1955)

Author(s)

Erick Reis Godliauskas Zen

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-09-19

Examining board members

Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro; Lená Medeiros de Menezes; Syrléa Marques Pereira; Angelo de Oliveira Segrillo; Oswaldo Mario Serra Truzzi

• Advisor: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro

Abstract

We aim to investigate the forms of organization and the relation among the Lithuanian communities rooted in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. By comparing them, we seek to understand the identity references within each national group during the process of territorial unrooting and solidarity bonding along with the inset processes in the different national States. At the same time, we intend to analise how those communitites have related to each other, beyond the country boundaries in which they had established themselves, building experience interchanges and organizing social and political movements. From the different political postures, we intend to identify the conflicts within the communities and against the Argentinian, Brazilian, and Uruguayan States and societies. We still intend to consider the Lithuanian government role in the community formation during the period of the country independency (1918-1940). We also look for observing the relation among the originally Jewish Lithuanian and the Lithuanian national communities formation process. We have considered the years between 1920 and 1950 as our time range, comprising the two main moments of the imigration to South America. (AU)