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PEDDIE, Francis. An Uncomfortable Presence: Mexico's Japanese Colony during the Second World War. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2006, n.32, pp.73-101. ISSN 0185-2620.

This is a study of the restrictive measures imposed by the government of Manuel Ávila Camacho on the Japanese colony of Mexico between 1941 and 1945, provoked by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The article also examines the history of the Japanese colony in Mexico until 1941, its social composition and demography. It examines the factors that provoked the measures, the consequences of the latter on the colony and the importance of these events in the memory of Mexican-Japaneses.

Palavras-chave : World War II; Japanese colony; Japan; Manuel Ávila Camacho; United States; Pearl Harbor; Mutual Assistance Committee (Comité de Ayuda Mutua); Interior Secretariat; immigration.