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History of emigration to Argentina and Uruguay
Javier Grossutti
The first groups of Friulian farmers to leave for Argentina started in the last decades of the 19th century, and they were the first contingents of a flow which continued for nearly a century along an uninterrupted migratory chain, changing with time and with their reason for emigrating. At first they were peasant farmers looking for new land to cultivate, bringing with them the values of their country of origin to the colonies of Resistencia, Avellaneda, Caroja, Formosa, San Benito and Sampacho. Later on there were brick layers, building entrepreneurs, furnace workers heading for the cities of Cordoba, Rosario, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires, then groups which were ever more diverse, made up of people who had more and more complex reasons for emigrating, not just economic ones. The Friulian, the Giulian, the Istrian and the Dalmation emigrants to Argentina and Uruguay formed important communities and started off a reciprocal link, always renewed, with their place of origin.
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