entry #8- IMMIGRATION- new version

Immigration in Argentina during the Twenties´

During the decade of the 1920´s many families from Europe and other countries which were hardly affected by the First World War, immigrated to Argentina looking for a better life. One of the main reasons why Italian, Spanish and German people came to this last continental country of South America was an economic one. The war had left their countries devastated and a lot of people suffered from starvation. Apart from that, many middle class people were unemployed, they had lost their jobs and it was almost impossible to find one in a country which was trying to cope with social and economic problems. Fortunately, when they arrived to Argentina they were welcomed and they could find a ray of light here. On the whole, immigrants found in Argentina a comfortable place to live and work and despite the fact that the war in their origin countries had finished, they decided to take their roots in this land.