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IMMIGRANTS' ARRIVAL</b>
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<font size="2" color="#990000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>20th
century</b><br>
<b>I</b>n the beginning of the century, 3 out of every 10 inhabitants were <b>foreigners</b>.
When the<b> immigration movement</b>s finished by <b>1970</b>, only a <b>10
per cent</b> of the inhabitants had been born abroad. By <b>1980</b>, this figure
had decreased to a <b>7 per cent</b>, and by <b>1991</b>, it was <b>5 per cent</b>.
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<font size="2" color="#990000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Internal
migrations as from 1940</b><br>
But at the same time, there were <b>internal migration movements</b> due to
the regional characteristics of some jobs such as the <b>sugar cane harvest
in the north-west</b>, which still attracts workers from everywhere in the July-October
period. Much the same situation occurs with the <b>grape harvest in Cuyo</b>
in late summer.<br>
In <b>1940's</b> the <b>migratory process</b> accompanying the industrialization
of <b>Buenos Aires</b> and neighboring districts deepened, going on up to this
day. According to the <b>1991 Census</b>, about <b>6,500,000</b> of Argentine
people live far from their original province. A <b>25 per cent</b> of the population
of <b>Capital Federal</b>, a <b>35 per cent</b> in the province of Buenos Aires
and a <b>44 per cent</b> in Tierra del Fuego are from the interior.<br>
The <b>internal migrations</b> produced some possibly unforeseen phenomena.
The inland cities lost their young population and quickened their economic decay.
Those cities which took the immigratory flows had to face the lack of infrastructure
to put up with the process and still today, they cannot help the social conflict
brought about by overcrowding.
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