Eastern Europe and middle east on New York street, Berisso

Abstract

We present an approach to the study of the trajectory of two religious communities founded by immigrants in Berisso, at the beginning of the 20th century. Both reconfigured in a diverse way the relationships between origin and ethnic, religious, and cultural identity, up to the present. These preliminary notes present the particular context of Berisso, characterized by the strength of immigrant labor, in the face of the modernist-enlightenment foundation of the city of La Plata as capital of the province of Buenos Aires. We approached the institutions that represent both communities with the objective of describing the social networks and written media that account for their community relations, and interviewing some social actors linked to both institutions.