Ukrainian Argentines

Ukrainian Argentines
Українці aргентини (Ukrainian)
Ucraniano-argentinos (Spanish)
Argentina Ukraine
Ukrainian Argentines in parade in Misiones Province
Total population
4,811 (by birth, 2023)[1]
+ 1,000,000 (by ancestry)[2][3][4][5]
3,5% of Argentina's population
Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in the Pampas, the North and the Patagonia
Languages
Religion
Related ethnic groups

Ukrainian Argentines (Ukrainian: Українці Аргентини, Ukrajintsi Arhentyny, Spanish: Ucranio-argentinos) are Argentine citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukraine-born people who reside in Argentina. Ukrainian Argentines are an ethnic minority in Argentina. Estimates of the Ukrainian and/or Ukrainian-descended population range from 1,000,000 people (the latter figure making Ukrainians up to 3,5% of the total Argentine population).[3][4][5] Many Ukrainian Argentines are of Jewish descent.[6] Currently, the main concentrations of Ukrainians in Argentina are in the Greater Buenos Aires area, with at least 100,000 people of Ukrainian descent,[7] the province of Misiones (the historical heartland of Ukrainian immigration to Argentina), with at least 55,000 Ukrainians, and the province of Chaco with at least 30,000 Ukrainians.[7][8] In Misiones Province Ukrainians constitute approximately 9% of the province's total population.[7] In comparison to Ukrainians in North America, the Ukrainian community in Argentina (as well as in Brazil) tends to be more descended from earlier waves of immigration, is poorer, more rural, has less organizational strength, and is more focused on the Church as the center of cultural identity.[9] Most Ukrainian Argentines do not speak the Ukrainian language and have switched to Spanish, although they continue to maintain their ethnic identity.[10]

  1. ^ "Datos sociodemográficos por país de nacimiento". RENAPER - Dirección Nacional de Población. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  2. ^ Ucrania.com (in Spanish)
  3. ^ a b "Entre mates y acordeones. La inmigración ucraniana en Argentina".
  4. ^ a b "Ucranianos en la Argentina: Los motivos del éxodo, la región donde echaron raíces a fines de 1800 y las costumbres que perduran". March 2, 2022.
  5. ^ a b ""Tememos a las locuras de Putin". Ucranianos en la Argentina: Son 300 mil, cómo viven la amenaza de guerra con Rusia a la distancia". January 25, 2022.
  6. ^ "Article". Ucrania.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved August 5, 2007.
  7. ^ a b c Wasylyk, Mykola (1994). Ukrainians in Argentina (Chapter), in Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World, edited by Ann Lencyk Pawliczko, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 420-443
  8. ^ Kostiantynova, Svitlana (January 25, 2007). "Argentine-Ukrainians or Ukrainian-Argentines: about two homelands". Instytut Ukrainoznavstva (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved March 22, 2007.
  9. ^ Subtelny, Orest. (1988). Ukraine: a History. University of Toronto Press: Toronto. pg. 566 ISBN 0-8020-5808-6
  10. ^ Ukrainian Echo[permanent dead link] From the Life of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Misiones. Ihor Vasylyk. November 6, 2008. (in Ukrainian)