Latin American Law
Genealogy
Last updated 26 Sep 11
US (ethnic)
genealogy …
US Immigration (1820-2000)
9,000
8,000 Europe
7,000 Asia
Thousands
6,000 Canada
5,000 Mexico
Caribbean
4,000
Central America
3,000
South America
2,000
Africa
1,000
Oceania
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Decade
US Im m igration 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Europe 99 496 1,597 2,453 2,065 2,272 4,735 3,555 8,056 4,322 2,463 348 621 1,326 1,123 800 762 1,512
Asia 0 0 0 42 65 124 70 75 324 247 112 17 37 153 428 1,588 2,738 3,273
Canada 2 14 42 59 154 384 393 3 179 742 925 109 172 378 413 170 157 225
Mexico 5 7 3 3 2 5 2 1 50 219 459 22 61 300 454 640 1,656 4,161
Caribbean 4 12 14 11 9 14 29 33 108 123 75 16 50 123 470 741 872 1,098
Central America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 17 16 6 22 45 101 135 468 828
South America 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 17 42 42 8 22 92 258 296 462 649
Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 8 6 2 7 14 29 81 177 283
Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 11 13 4 13 13 9 2 15 13 25 41 45 52
All countries 143 599 1,713 2,598 2,315 2,812 5,247 3,688 8,795 5,736 4,107 528 1,035 2,515 3,322 4,493 7,338 12,093
Latin American
colonization, geography, history …
Bahamas
Cuba
Dominican Republic
18th C Haiti
20th C Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Mexico
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Colombia “Latin America”
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
21st C
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
19th C Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
Latin American timeline …
Dates for timeline?
Trevor Ostbye
How strong has been Catholic Church in Latin America? King vs
poe? After independence? Trevor Ostbye / Keith Orgel
Miscegenation common in hierarchical Latin America,
but illegal the egalitarian United States TO / KO
How has Brazil handled influx of immigrants? US retirees?
Same-Sex spouses? Keith Orgel
Juan Vicente Gomez
(1857-1935)
Caudillos had power but lacked legitimacy,
while jurists had legitimacy but lacked power
Law-reality mismatch
the gap between legal principles and social reality
Why did North America (the US) and
Latin America turn out so differently?
Latin America North America
Colonized Colonized
Marginalized Wiped out Natives
Natives
Mostly Republican Republican form
form of govt of govt
Peonage Slavery
Plenty of natural Plenty of natural
resources resources
Civil Wars Civil war
Industrialization Industrialization
It is the reader who ultimately
creates the text.
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986)
A key failure of many Latin American legal
systems is seen in the faces of the millions of
impoverished Latin American citizens that have
been wholly abandoned, even persecuted, by
their governments and laws.
Miguel Schor, CONSTITUTIONALISM
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
OF LATIN AMERICA (2006)
The US wealth gap and “War on Terror” make
this country seem more Latin American.
“Laziness and complacency are
leading attributes of Iberian
culture ….
“Catholicism harbors a
remarkable tolerance of, and
perhaps even a tacit
preference for, corruption and
backwardness ….
“Catholicism is hostile to Lawrence Harrison,
technological advancement The Pan-American Dream (1997)
and rapid social change ….
… la América es ingobernable
para nosotros, el que sirve
una revolución ara en el mar,
la única cosa que se puede
hacer en América es emigrar
[1830]
“America is ungovernable. Those
who serve the revolution plow the
sea. All one can do is emigrate.”
Simon Bolivar
(1783-1830)
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Percy Fawcett