Julia Albarracin

Julia Albarracin is a political scientist whose research examines immigration policy, national identity, and the incorporation of migrant communities. Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina studies how Argentina’s governments selected, welcomed, restricted, and represented different immigrant groups from independence into the twenty-first century. Published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2020, the book argues that immigration policy emerges from the interaction of state institutions with economic priorities, cultural ideas, and international pressures. Albarracin contrasts the nation-building preference for Western European settlers with the actual arrival of people from neighboring Latin American countries, Jewish communities, and the Middle East. She also follows later legal changes and public debates over immigrant rights. Rather than treating policy as a fixed national attitude, she shows executive and legislative choices changing across political periods. Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina combines historical analysis with political science, making it relevant to readers studying Latin America, migration, citizenship, and the ways governments turn broad ideas about belonging into concrete rules.