IMMIGRANT POSITIONING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY MEXICO: MIDDLE EASTERNERS, FOREIGN CITIZENS, AND MULTICULTURALISM. Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa,

This article explores how a few immigrants from the Middle East became Mexican power brokers by positioning themselves socially, politically, and economically in the twentieth century. The experiences of Middle Eastern immigrants in Mexico illustrate how ethnic groups can position themselves to prosper in a nation-state where the prevailing sense of identity is grounded in a discourse of mestizo origins. By exploring how one immigrant group handles the social conditions of a Latin American nation-state, we may begin to expand traditional, racialized discourses of who participates in mestizo nations. 

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