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The FBI 's Role in Expelling G ermans from Ecuador During the 1940s
Author(s) -
BECKER MARC
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12638
Subject(s) - immigration , subject (documents) , political science , criminology , law , sociology , computer science , library science
The expulsion from L atin A merica of immigrants from axis countries and their descendants is an important but little‐studied episode of the S econd W orld W ar. The role of the US , and in particular that of the F ederal B ureau of I nvestigation ( FBI ), in their removal has largely disappeared from historical memory. This article examines how the FBI advanced US commercial interests, and in the process harmed vulnerable people who were subject to these expulsions.