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PITA PICO, Roger. The Expulsion of “Pernicious” Foreigners in Colombia in Recent Years of Conservative Hegemony. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.17, pp.155-190. ISSN 2145-132X.

In the early twentieth century occurred in Colombia increased influx of foreigners but also increased political control in the entry and stay of these individuals. As part of social history and documentaries based on archival sources, this paper analyzes the process of expulsion of undocumented aliens and “pernicious” at the end of the presidential government of Miguel Abadía Mendez (1926-1930). This article aims to examine the reasons for these deportations, the measures taken against women prostitutes, the fate of the escapees and absolved and, finally, the complications that revolved around expulsion proceedings. This concern of the government by the presence of foreigners “pernicious” was in the interest of achieving national security through a social model in which were seriously questioned practices such as vagrancy, begging, theft, fraud, prostitution and seditious political activities.

Palabras clave : foreigners; immigrants; deportation; Colombia; XX century.

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