[Trying to seize the unseizable: the dimensions of immigration in Argentina since 1945].

Abstract

"Preliminary results of a current project on migration in Argentina 1945-1988 are presented here, in four series: legal residents...(including those who obtained permanent residence through amnesty); net immigration...on the basis of census information on alien residents (1947-1980) less the deceased in the period; balance of entries and departures...of aliens (where every incoming alien is an immigrant and every outgoing alien is an emigrant); finally, net migration...on the basis of census data for 1945 and 1980 is estimated. The figures obtained are evaluated. This set of series is of variable consistency, mainly due to the progressive loss of quality in the basic data towards the end of the period considered." (SUMMARY IN ENG)