Nacionalismo en la distancia: los italianos emigrados y el fascismo en México (1922-1945)

Abstract

The Italian community in Mexico often overlooked in the field of migration and political studies in the interwar years, due to low numbers involved, is actually an interesting and significant example of relations between the regime of Mussolini and Italian diaspora in Latin America. Here we examine the particular features of this community and its evolving relationship with the mother country, in the context of relations between Mexico and Italy. The data suggest that the settlement of fascism as an active version of Italian nationalism abroad had a great capacity to attract migrants and their descendants, conditioned by the excited nationalist environment stimulated by the post-revolutionary state and by the analogies and differences that exist between the Mexican nationalist regime and the Italian fascist regime.