Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. in his paper “Manilamen and seafaring: Engaging the Maritime World beyond the Spanish Realm” states that during the war, an Argentine of French descent, Hypolite Bouchard, who was a privateer for the Argentine Army who laid siege to Monterey, Californina, had in his second ship, the Santa Rosa, which was captained by the American Peter Corney, a multiethnic crew that included Filipinos.

[7] Mercene, who wrote the book “Manila Men,” proposes that those Manilamen were recruited in San Blas, an alternative port to Acapulco, Mexico, where several Filipinos had settled during the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade era.

By the later half of the 20th century, Asian Argentines were active in politics, an example of a political party being a special Unidad Básica (Peronist) party office under the name Unión de Residentes Taiwaneses Justicialistas ("Union of Justicialist Taiwanese Residents) at the heart of Buenos Aires's Chinatown Arribeños & Mendoza.

[11] Other Asian Argentines include smaller clusters of ethnic Laotians, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Hmong, most of whom arrived in the aftermath of conflict in Southeast Asia in the 1970s.

In 1910, Senator Manuel Lainez presented a project to expel Lebanese and Syrian immigrants regardless of their religious background (Christian, Jewish, etc.

Investigations within Korean Argentine textile factories and stores have shown that illegal workers from Bolivia were employed in those places.