Familiar structures and the impact of early immigration, Buenos Aires City, 1855

Gladys Massé, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC)

The general purpose of this paper consists of interpreting how the marked presence of early international immigration hit the forms of residential organization and influenced the detected familiar structures of the City of Buenos Aires –urban area- at 1855. In this case, immigrants who proceed from European regions were occupying the place vacated by the native young men who were absent because of the war. The period faces the dismemberment and military-political and economical confrontation among the denominated “State of Buenos Aires” in opposition to the rest of the provinces that integrated the so-called “Argentine Confederation”. The applied methodology refers the quantitative investigation oriented from the application of the households and families type generated by Peter Laslett and the Group of Cambridge. The same one has been reviewed and fit to adapting it to the data of the City of Buenos Aires Census rose October 17 of 1855.