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MARTINEZ-MARTIN, Abel Fernando. Tropic and race. Miguel Jiménez López and the Japanese Immigration in Colombia, 1920-1929. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2017, n.32, pp.103-138. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n32.59366.

This article discusses the debate on immigration in Colombia, specifically focusing on Japanese immigration, an problem, by being so far from the desired European immigration. Likewise, the important role played by the psychiatrist and conservative Colombian politician Miguel Jiménez López and his theory of degeneration of the Colombian race. Jiménez López is the author of “The yellow immigration in the America”, a publication of the National Academy of Medicine, written in response to the Ministry of Industries about the question for the possible impact of a Japanese immigration in the eastern plains. Jiménez Lopez maintains the problem from medicalization and biology, using more arguments from geographical determinism and racism that from eugenics, to justify that a Japanese immigration to Colombia was not advisable, because it jeopardizes the progressive bleaching managed -with the passage of time- by the Colombian race.

Palabras clave : Colombia; migration policy; Japanese immigration; ethnic discrimination; Medicine History.

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