Immigration to Brazil

Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign peoples to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves. Latin Europe accounted for four-fifths of the arrivals (1.8 million Portuguese, 1.5 million Italians, and 700,000 Spaniards). This engendered a strikingly multicultural society. Yet over a few generations, Brazil absorbed these new populations in a manner that resembles the experience of the rest of the New World.[1]

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European and Levantine countries with significant emigration to Brazil, 1820 to 1980.
Monument to the immigrant in Caxias do Sul reading: "The Brazilian nation to the immigrant" (Portuguese: "A nação brasileira ao imigrante")
Portuguese descendants in Santos.
Italian descendants in São Paulo.
Italian regional immigration to Brazil, which has the most people of Italian origin outside Italy. Unlike other countries with Italian immigrants, Brazil prioritized Northern Italy which it considered more developed.

Throughout its history, Brazil has always been a recipient of settlers, but this began to gain importance in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century when the country received massive immigration from Europe, the Middle East, and Japan, which left lasting marks on demography, culture, language and the economy of Brazil.

In general, it is considered that people who entered Brazil up to 1822, the year of independence, were wholly colonizers. Since then, some of those who entered the independent nation were immigrants, mainly Portuguese, Italians and Spaniards, but also Germans, Japanese, Poles, Lebanese, Syrians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Jews, Russians and many others.[2][3]

Before 1871, the number of immigrants rarely exceeded two or three thousand people a year. Immigration increased pressure from the first end of the international slave trade to Brazil, after the expansion of the economy, especially in the period of large coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo.

Immigration has been a very important demographic factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, with all its attending factors and consequences in culture, economy, education, racial issues. Brazil has received one of the largest numbers of immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, along with the United States, Argentina and Canada.[4]

Counting from 1872 (year of the first census) by the year 2000, Brazil received about 6 million immigrants.

Brief history
Total of foreign people authorized to work in Brazil by state in 2009. Rank by people.
  1st
  2nd
  3rd
  4th
  5th
People authorized to work in Brazil by origin in 2009. Organized by largest ancestry.
  U.S. citizen
  Italian
  Portuguese
  Chinese
  Spanish
  Cuban
  German
  English
  French
  Japanese
Arrival of the Portuguese to Northeast Brazil in 1500.
A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It says "Let's go to South America (Brazil) with the family."
Scottish immigrants in Brazil.
Italian immigrants in Brazil.
Japanese immigrants in Brazil.
Spaniard in Brazil.
People authorized to work in Brazil by North American countries in 2009. Organized by number of people.
  4,040
  684
  368
People authorized to work in Brazil by European countries in 2009. Organized by number of people.
  2,528–648
  523-184
  177-050
People authorized to work in Brazil by South American countries in 2009. Organized by number of people.
  555-399
  398-237
  236-102
  101-002
Argentines voting in Brasília.

Maria Stella Ferreira Levy[5] suggests the following periodization of the process of immigration to Brazil:

  1. 1820–1876: small number of immigrants (about 6,000 per year), predominance of Portuguese (45.73%), with significant numbers of Germans (12.97%);
  2. 1877–1903: large number of immigrants (about 71,000 per year), predominance of Italians (58.49%);
  3. 1904–1930: large number of immigrants (about 79,000 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (36.97%);
  4. 1931–1963: declining number of immigrants (about 33,500 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (38.45%).

The Brazilian population before immigration

When Brazil was settled as a new land in the New World by the Portuguese in 1500, its native population was composed of about 2.4 million Amerindians[6] whose ancestors had been living there for the last 15,000 to 20,000 years.

During the three decades afterwards, the country remained sparsely inhabited by Europeans. Among those few, mainly Portuguese, most were renegades, criminals banished from Portugal, shipwreck survivors, or mutinous sailors. They integrated into the local tribes, using their superior technology to attain privileged positions among them.[7]

After 1530, the Portuguese started to settle in Brazil in significant numbers. However, Portugal had a small population to develop the exploitation of Brazil. By 1550, the colonists started to bring African slaves. From 1500, when the Portuguese reached Brazil, until its independence in 1822, from 500,000 to 700,000 Portuguese settled in Brazil, 600,000 of whom arrived in the 18th century alone.[8][9]

The Portuguese settled in the whole territory, initially remaining near the coast, except in the region of São Paulo, from where the bandeirantes would spread into the hinterland. In the 18th century, large waves of Portuguese settled the country, in the wake of the discovery of gold in the region of Minas Gerais, but the number of Portuguese who settled in Brazil in its colonial era was far lower than of African slaves: from 1550 to 1850, some 4 million slaves were brought to Brazil.[9]

This should not be taken as meaning that the population of Brazil before independence was mainly Black: the average survival of an African slave in Brazil was merely seven years after arrival,[10] implying extremely high mortality rates. Although children born to slave women inherited the slave condition, the Portuguese always relied on slaves purchased from slave traders to replace and increase the work force; the natural growth of the slave population was always very small.[11]

In the early 19th century, Brazil was mainly composed of people of three different origins: the indigenous inhabitants, the Portuguese and their descendants, the Africans and descendants, and, naturally, people of varying degrees of "racial" mixture. In 1872, after the arrival of about 350,000 mostly European immigrants and about 1,150,000 Africans forcibly brought to Brazil as slaves, the first Brazilian Census counted 9,930,478 people in Brazil, of which 3,787,289 (38.14%) were Whites, 3,380,172 (34.04%) were "pardos", 1,954,452 (19.68%) were Blacks, and 386,955 (3.90%) were "caboclos".[12]

First period: 1820–1871

Immigration properly started with the opening of the Brazilian ports, in 1808. The government began to stimulate the arrival of Europeans to occupy plots of land and become small farmers. In 1812, settlers from the Azores were brought to Espírito Santo and in 1819, Swiss to Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. After independence from Portugal, the Brazilian Empire focused on the occupation of the provinces of Southern Brazil. It was mainly because Southern Brazil had a small population, vulnerable to attacks by Argentina and the Kaingang Indians.[13]

From 1824, immigrants from Central Europe started to populate what is nowadays the region of São Leopoldo, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul. According to Leo Waibel, these German immigrants were mainly "oppressed peasants and former soldiers of the army of Napoleon". In 1830 a bill was passed forbidding the Imperial government from spending money with the settlement of immigrants, which stalled immigration until 1834, when the provincial governments were charged with promoting immigration.[14]

Following the American Civil War, some 20,000 Confederates from the American South immigrated to the Empire of Brazil. Many of them settled in São Paulo, particularly in the vicinity of the present day city of Americana. The immigrants were the first to bring Baptism, as well as Methodism to Brazil.[15] These American immigrants and their descendants brought numerous culinary products over, such as chess pie. Today, there are some 260,000 descendants of the Confederates living in Brazil.

In 1859, Prussia prohibited emigration to Brazil. This was mainly because of complaints that Germans were being exploited in the coffee plantations of São Paulo. Still, between 1820 and 1876, 350,117 immigrants entered Brazil. Of these, 45.72% were Portuguese, 35.74% of "other nationalities", 12.97% Germans, while Italians and Spanish together did not reach 6%. The total number of immigrants per year averaged 6,000.[16] Many immigrants, particularly the Germans, were brought to settle in rural communities as small landowners. They received land, seed, livestock and other items to develop.

Second Period: 1872–1903

In the last quarter of the 19th century, the entry of immigrants in Brazil grew strongly. On one hand, Europe underwent a serious demographic crisis, which resulted in increased emigration; on the other hand, the final crisis of Brazilian slavery prompted Brazilian authorities to find solutions for the problem of work force. Consequently, while immigration until 1871 was focused on establishing communities of landowners, during this period, while this older process continued, immigrants were more and more attracted to the coffee plantations of São Paulo, where they became employees or were allowed to cultivate small tracts of land in exchange for their work in the coffee crop.[13]

This also coincided with the decreasing availability of better land in southern Brazil—while the German immigrants arriving in the previous period occupied the valleys of the rivers, the Italians arriving in the last quarter of the century settled the mountainous regions of the state.[17]

During this period, immigration was much more intense: large numbers of Europeans, especially Italians, started to be brought to the country to work in the harvest of coffee.[18] From 1877 to 1903, almost two million immigrants arrived, at a rate of 71,000 per year.[19] Brazil's receiving structure, legislation and settlement policies for immigrants were much less organized than in Canada and the United States at the time. Nevertheless, an Immigrant's Hostel (Hospedaria dos Imigrantes) was built in 1886 in São Paulo, and quick admittance and recording routines for the throngs of immigrants arriving by ship at the seaports of Vitória, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Paranaguá, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre were established. The São Paulo site alone processed more than 2.5 million immigrants in its almost 100 years of continuous operation. People of more than 70 different nationalities were recorded.

In 1850, Brazil declared the end of the slave trade. This had different impacts on the different regions of Brazil. At the time, the region of São Paulo was undergoing a process of economic boom, linked to the expansion of the cultivation of coffee, and consequently needed increased amounts of labour. Other regions, notedly the Northeast, on the contrary, faced economic retraction, and were, consequently, able to dispense workforce. This entailed the replacement of the international slave trade by an internal or interprovincial slave trade, in which Northeastern slaves were sold in large numbers to the Southeast.[20]

This temporarily solved the workforce problem in São Paulo and other coffee plantation areas. However, by 1870 the paulista elite came to realise that the Northeastern slaveholders were in fact being able to obtain financial compensation for their slaves, or, in practice, an abolition with compensation.[20] Fears of a situation comparable to the United States, with the division of the country into free provinces and slave provinces arose. Consequently, paulista politicians began to seek measures against the interprovincial traffic, at a time when, anyway, the price of Northeastern slaves was getting higher and higher, due to their increasing scarcity.[20]

By the beginning of the 1870s, the alternative of the interprovincial trade was exhausted, while the demand for workforce in the coffee plantations continued to expand. Thus the paulista oligarchy sought to attract new workers from abroad, by passing provincial legislation and pressing the Imperial government to organise immigration.[20][21]

Third period: 1904–1930

From 1904 to 1930, 2,142,781 immigrants came to Brazil—making an annual average of 79,000 people. In consequence of the Prinetti Decree of 1902, that forbade subsidised emigration to Brazil, Italian immigration had, at this stage, a drastic reduction: their average annual entries from 1887 to 1903 was 58,000. In this period they were only 19,000 annually. The Portuguese constituted 38% of entries, followed by Spaniards with 22%. From 1914 to 1918, due to World War I, the entry of immigrants of all nationalities decreased.[16] After the War, the immigration of people of "other nationalities" redressed faster than that of Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians. Part of this category was composed of immigrants from Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Moldova and Romania, who immigrated probably by political issues, and part by Syrian and Lebanese peoples. Both subgroups included a number of Jewish immigrants, who arrived in the 1920s.

From 1931 to 1963, 1,106,404 immigrants entered Brazil. The participation of the Japanese increased. From 1932 to 1935 immigrants from Japan constituted 30% of total admissions.[16] Prior to this yearly Japanese immigrants were numerically limited to no more than 5% of the current Japanese population.[22]

Immigrants continued working in coffee plantations. By 1934, over 40% of the coffee production in São Paulo was produced by the 14.5 percent foreign population of the state, showing their entrepreneurial spirit and ambition. In fact, 19th century immigrants usually exhibited a formal and informal education and training that was better than that of native Brazilians. The country benefitted from their arrival not only because of their workforce, but also because of the skills and knowledge they shared. Spillover effects led to increased levels of human capital, with the effect being most prominent in regions with the highest numbers of immigrants.[23]

Fourth Period: 1931–1964

With the radicalization of the political situation in Europe, the end of the demographic crisis, the decadence of coffee culture, the Revolution of 1930 and the consequent rise of a nationalist government, immigration to Brazil was significantly reduced. The focus shifted to culturally assimilating immigrants and "whitening" the population.[24] From 1931 to 1963, 1,106,404 immigrants entered Brazil. The annual arrival of immigrants fell to 33,500. The Portuguese remained the most significant group, with 39.35%, The participation of the Japanese continued to increase, becoming the second most important group, with 12.79%. Particularly from 1932 to 1935 immigrants from Japan constituted 30% of total admissions.[16]

Immigration also became a more urban phenomenon; most immigrants came for the cities, and even the descendants of the immigrants of the previous periods were moving intensely from the countryside. In the 1950s, Brazil started a program of immigration to provide workers for Brazilian industries. In São Paulo, for example, between 1957 and 1961, more than 30% of the Spanish, over 50% of the Italian and 70% of the Greek immigrants were brought to work in factories.

During the 1970s Brazil received about 32,000 Lebanese immigrants escaping the civil war, as well as smaller numbers of Palestinians and Syrians. Between 1974 and 1980 Brazil also received almost 500 Portuguese settler families fleeing Angola or Mozambique as well as some 1,000 exiles from Portugal proper, many of them serving officers of the Portuguese Military or Police, fleeing post-Carnation Revolution Portugal because of their association with the former regime.[25][26]

During the 1990s Brazil received small numbers of immigrants from the former republics of Yugoslavia, from Afghanistan and Angola.[27] Recent immigration is mainly constituted by Chinese and Koreans and, in a smaller degree, by Argentines and other Latin American immigrants.[28]

Because of political issues, people from Bolivia immigrate to Brazil.[29] The majority of the Bolivians come from cities such as La Paz, Sucre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Cochabamba. Usually they enter Brazil through Cuiabá, in Mato Grosso, or San Mathias, in Bolivia, which borders Caceres, Mato Grosso and Corumbá, in Mato Grosso do Sul.

Between 1,200 and 1,500 Bolivian immigrants come to Brazil every month looking for a job. Most of them work in the illegal textile industry in the Greater São Paulo.[30] There are an estimated 200,000 Bolivians living in the Greater São Paulo, the majority of which are undocumented immigrants.[31]

In July 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro regulated the right of residence of Cuban doctors who participated in the Mais Médicos do Brasil program, or More Doctors. To be allowed to stay in Brazil for two years, the candidate must submit an application to the Federal Police of Brazil. Thereafter, immigrants can apply to live in the country indefinitely with permanent residence, submitting another application within ninety days prior to the end of the two-year residence period. Physicians requesting the right of residence must present several documents, such as identity or passport, as well as police records from the Brazilian states and countries where they resided, and finally, proof of participation in the Mais Médicos initiative, immigration documents and photos.[32]

In 2020, Brazil approved 24,880 processes for requesting recognition of refugee status. The largest refugee ancestries were Venezuelan (24,030), Syrian (479), Cuban (114), Iraqi (35), and Afghan (28).[33]

Due to the Venezuelan refugee crisis, in 2020, Venezuelans are the largest immigrant group living in Brazil. Argentines are the fifth largest immigrant group in Brazil due to factors such as proximity to Brazil, immigration agreements, linguistic similarity between Portuguese and Spanish, and economic growth in Brazil, facilitate this movement to the neighboring country.[34]

Country of Birth

Number of registered immigrants in Brazil.[35]

PlaceCountry2022
1 Venezuela325,637
2 Haiti169,489
3 Bolivia140,544
4 United States86,418
5 Colombia81,036
6 Argentina79,744
7 China66,380
8 Uruguay50,512
9 Peru49,412
10 Paraguay48,501
11 Portugal47,675
12 France44,589
13 Germany40,980
14 Italy40,433
15 Cuba35,602
16 Spain33,200
17 Philippines30,368
18 Japan29,793
19 United Kingdom24,662
20 India23,912
21 Mexico22,656
22 Angola21,377
23 South Korea21,143
24 Chile20,650
25 Netherlands11,266
26 Norway10,868
27 Ecuador10,669
28 Senegal10,071
29 Canada9,087
30 Lebanon8,343
31 Poland7,964
32 Russia7,781
33 Indonesia7,310
34 Syria6,941
35 Nigeria6,819
36  Switzerland6,653
37 Guinea-Bissau5,998
38 Belgium5,691
39 Mozambique5,175
40 Denmark4,814
41 Romania4,799
42 Sweden4,690
43 Cabo Verde4,638
44 Ukraine4,479
45 Bangladesh4,342
46 Australia4,144
47 Dominican Republic3,370
48 Finland3,351
49 Austria3,345
50 Greece3,181
51 South Africa3,069
52 Taiwan3,064
53 Malaysia2,733
54 Croatia2,697
55 Honduras2,592
56 Morocco2,494
57 Ghana2,374
58 Democratic Republic of Congo2,364
59 Pakistan2,348
60 Turkey2,347
61 Egypt2,234
62 Thailand2,051
63 Costa Rica1,929
64 Iran1,710
Other countries551,122
TOTAL1,781,924

Visa policy
Main article: Visa policy of Brazil
Visa policy of Brazil
  Brazil
  Entry with identity cards possible
  Visa exemption
  Visa must be obtained in advance
President Jair Bolsonaro ended tourist visa requirements for U.S. citizens, Canadians, Australians and Japanese.
Most foreigners enter in Brazil through the intercontinental airport in São Paulo.

Permanent visas may be granted to individuals intending to establish residence in Brazil. Permanent Visas apply to:[36]

  • Technicians or professionals with a work contract pre-approved by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor, National Department of Employment. This visa must be applied for in Brazil.
  • Professors, technicians and high-level researchers who wish to immigrate to Brazil to undertake research work in an institution of higher learning or of research in science and technology. This visa must be applied for in Brazil.
  • Foreign investors with initial transfer of foreign capital equivalent to no less than US$50,000 and an investment plan pre-approved by the Brazilian National Council on Immigration (CNIG). This visa must be applied for in Brazil.
  • Administrators, managers or directors hired by a commercial enterprise or civil organization resulting from foreign investment described in item 3 above, with a work contract pre-approved by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor, National Department of Employment. This visa must be applied for in Brazil.
  • A retired person, 60 years of age or older, accompanied by up to two dependents, and able to transfer monthly, in accordance with the laws of the country of origin, the amount equivalent to US$2,000. In the case of more than two dependents, the applicant must transfer the amount equivalent to US$1,000 for each additional dependent.
  • Spouse, partners in a common law union regardless of gender, or minor dependent of Brazilian citizen or of a permanent resident of Brazil;
  • Ancestors of a Brazilian national or of a permanent resident of Brazil;
  • Siblings of a Brazilian citizen or of a permanent resident of Brazil, if orphan, single and under 18 years of age;
  • Minor children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren of a Brazilian citizen or of a permanent resident of Brazil.

Nine countries in South America can enter Brazilian territory using only their identity document, that is, a passport is not necessary for entry, although some may use the passport if they want to. It is a measure of reciprocity for citizens of both countries, in order to facilitate those who work across the border, facilitate those who need to study across the border and facilitate commercial tourism.

In 2009, nationals from signatory States of the Mercosur Residence Agreement, which include eight countries, such as Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, etc., may establish temporary residence in Brazil:

  • By requesting a Mercosur Temporary Residence Visa if the immigrant is abroad; or
  • No need for a visa (Residence), directly with the Federal Police-Ministry of Justice in Brazil, in accordance with the relevant articles of the agreement if you already reside in Brazilian territory.
  • Of the eight countries, only Argentina and Uruguay have the exclusive benefit of applying for permanent residency directly, without going through the two-year temporary residency phase. This is due to exclusive immigration agreements between Brazil and Argentina, and between Brazil and Uruguay, facilitating the growth of the number of Argentines and Uruguayans residing in Brazil.[37]

In 2019, in his first year of government, the president Jair Bolsonaro, announced the end of the tourist visa requirement to the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan.[38]

In March 2023, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, announced the return of the visa requirement to the United States, Canada, Japan and Australia. However, it is not yet known when the measure will come into effect.[39]

Immigration law
International Airport Customs in Brasília.
Federal Highway Police of Brazil in Curitiba.
Brazilian passport.
Federal Police of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
President Jair Bolsonaro with new members of Federal Police in Brasília.
Federal Police in Brazilian Senate.
Federal Police in Brazilian Congress.
Ceremony of new members for the positions of Federal Police Agent, Federal Police Clerk and Federal Police Papilloscopist.

A foreigner with a permanent resident visa has nearly all of the same rights as a Brazilian citizen, such as access to health and education services in Brazil, in addition to being able to open a business, bank account, obtain a driver's license, among others. The permanent resident cannot vote or be elected to political office, and can only exercise these two rights after Brazilian naturalization.[40]

Federal Constitution

Article 5. Everyone is equal before the law, with no distinction whatsoever, guaranteeing to Brazilians and foreigners residing in the country the inviolability of the rights to life, liberty, equality, security and property.

No Brazilian shall be extradited, except for a naturalized Brazilian for a common crime committed prior to naturalization, or proven involvement in unlawful traffic in narcotics and similar drugs, as provided by law. No foreigner shall be extradited for a political or ideological offense.

Article 12. Brazilians are:

I - by birth:

a) those born in the Federative Republic of Brazil, even though of foreign parents, provided that they are not in the service of their country;

b) those born abroad of a Brazilian father or mother, so long as either is in the service of the Federative Republic of Brazil;

c) those born abroad of a Brazilian father or mother, so long as they are registered at a proper Brazilian governmental office, or come to reside in the Federative Republic of Brazil and opt for Brazilian nationality at any time after reaching the age of majority;

II - by naturalization:

a) those who, as set forth by law, acquire Brazilian nationality, it being the only requirement for persons originating from Portuguese-speaking countries the residence for 1 (one) uninterrupted year and good moral repute;

b) foreigners of any nationality, resident in the Federative Republic of Brazil for over 15 (fifteen) uninterrupted years and without criminal conviction, provided that they apply for the Brazilian nationality.

Paragraph 1. The rights inherent to Brazilians shall be attributed to Portuguese citizens with permanent residence in Brazil, if there is reciprocity in favour of Brazilians, except in the cases stated in this Constitution.

Paragraph 2. The law may not establish any distinction between born and naturalized Brazilians, except in the cases stated in this Constitution.

Paragraph 3. The following positions are restricted to native born Brazilians:

I - President and Vice-President of the Republic;

II - President of the Chamber of Deputies;

III - President of the Federal Senate;

IV - Minister of the Supreme Federal Tribunal;

V - The diplomatic career;

VI - Officers of the Armed Forces;

VII - The Minister of Defense.

Paragraph 4. Loss of nationality shall be declared for a Brazilian:

I - Whose naturalization has been cancelled by judicial decision because of activity harmful to the national interest;

II - acquires another nationality, except in the cases:

a) of recognition of original nationality by foreign law;

b) of a foreign law imposing naturalization upon a Brazilian residing in a foreign country as a condition for remaining in its territory or for exercise of civil rights.[41]

Article 22. The Union has exclusive power to legislate with respect to:

XIII - nationality, citizenship and naturalization;

XV - emigration, immigration, entry, extradition and expulsion of foreigners;

Statute of Foreigner

Article 112. Are conditions for the granting of naturalization:

I - civilian capacity, according to Brazilian law;

II - to be registered as permanent resident in Brazil;

III - continuous residence in the territory for a minimum period of 4 (four) years immediately preceding the application for naturalization;

IV - read and write the Portuguese language, considering the conditions of naturalizing;

V - exercise of occupation or possession of sufficient assets to maintain itself and the family;

VI - proper procedure;

VII - no complaint, indictment in Brazil or abroad for a felony that is threatened in minimum sentence of imprisonment, abstractly considered, more than 1 (one) year;

VIII - good health.

Article 113.The period of residence prescribed in Article 112, item III, may be reduced if the naturalizing fill any of the following conditions:

I - have a child or spouse of Brazil;

(Including same-sex spouse, see also: Same-sex immigration policy in Brazil)

II - be son of a Brazilian;

III - have provided or can provide relevant services to Brazil, in the opinion of the Minister of Justice of Brazil;

IV - commend themselves by their professional, scientific or artistic; or

V - to be owner in Brazil, real estate, whose value is equal to at least a thousand times the greatest value of reference, or be provided with industrial funds of equal value, or hold quota shares or amount of paid-in least identical in commercial or civil society, aimed principally and permanently, the operation of industrial or agricultural activities.

Sole Paragraph. The residence will be at least 1 (one) year, in cases of items I, II, and III; 2 (two) years in Item IV; and 3 (three) years in Item V.[42]

Amnesty
A group of Palestinian immigrants in São Paulo.

Since the 1980s, the Brazilian government has offered amnesty to foreigners in irregular situations[43] in four different campaigns, benefiting tens of thousands of foreigners living in Brazil. The latest campaign began in July 2009 by presidential decree, and though it officially ended at the close of 2009, some cases are still pending. In 2009, 41,816 foreigners received amnesty through the 2009 amnesty program.[44] Though the large majority of immigrants live in São Paulo, other cases were based largely in Rio de Janeiro and Paraná. The breakdown by country/continent is the following: 16,881 Bolivians, 5,492 Chinese, 4,642 Peruvians, 4,135 Paraguayans, 2,700 Africans (including North Africa), 2,390 Europeans, 1,129 Koreans, 469 Argentines, 274 U.S. citizens, 186 Cubans.

While foreigners who received amnesty obtained the right to work and access health and education services, they are unable to vote or run for public office. They may opt to apply for citizenship after a probation period of residency to obtain these rights. Officially, amnesty intends to cut down on illegal activity and human rights violations, particularly with Bolivians in São Paulo. But it seems to fit in with the Lula administration's international policies, including ramped up diplomacy and establishing ties with other nations, but also establishing itself as a competitor with developed countries. By showing that it is a center for immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in South America, and more importantly, that it is supposedly a benevolent and welcoming country for immigrants, it helps Brazil's international public image.[45]

Those who would benefit from the amnesty, following publication of the law in the Brazilian Official Gazette in July 2009, have up to 180 days after the time of their temporary residence permit (valid for 2 years) to apply. They must also aver their clean criminal record or submit a recent, official document of good conduct from the originating country. During these two years, they must not exceed 90 consecutive days spent abroad. Ninety days prior to the expiration of the temporary residence permit, they must aver their self-sufficiency in Brazil. If they can prove they are eligible for a permanent residence permit. Only ten years after receiving a permanent residence permit may be eligible for naturalization to be Brazilian.[46]

The result of immigration to Brazil

Immigration
Immigration to Brazil, by national origin, periods from 1830 to 1959
Source: Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Period
Origin 1830–1855 1856–1883 1884–1893 1894–1903 1904–1913 1914–1923 1924–1933 1945–1949 1950–1954 1955–1959 1960–1969 1970–1972
Portugal Portuguese 16,737 116,000 170,621 155,542 384,672 201,252 233,650 26,268 123,082 96,811 197,587 immigrants; many nationalities 15,558 immigrants; majority from Portugal
Italy Italians — 100,000 510,533 537,784 196,521 86,320 70,177 15,312 59,785 31,263
Spain Spaniards — — 113,116 102,142 224,672 94,779 52,400 4,092 53,357 38,819
Germany Germans 2,008 30,000 22,778 6,698 33,859 29,339 61,723 5,188 12,204 4,633
Japan Japanese — — — — 11,868 20,398 110,191 12 5,447 28,819
LebanonSyria Lebanese and Syrians — — 96 7,124 45,803 20,400 20,400 N/D N/D N/D
Others — — 66,524 42,820 109,222 51,493 164,586 29,552 84,851 47,599
Ukrainian immigrants in Curitiba, Paraná celebrating the Ukrainian Easter.
A Portuguese immigrant in Rio de Janeiro, 1895.
Argentines voting in Brasília.
European immigrants and a Brazilian coffee plantation.
Swedish and Japanese descendants in São Paulo.
Gramado was colonized by Germans and Italians.
Finnish community in Itatiaia.
Nova Friburgo with a Swiss cheese factory.
Teresópolis with a Portuguese hotel.
Ouro Preto colonized by Portuguese immigrants.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro.
Ouro Preto colonized by Portuguese immigrants.
Congonhas with a Portuguese church.
Ouro Preto colonized by Portuguese immigrants.
Ouro Preto and a Portuguese church.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro.

Immigration has been a very important demographic factor in the formation, structure and history of the population in Brazil, influencing culture, economy, education, racial issues, etc. Brazil has received the third largest number of immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States.

European diaspora

In the 100 years from 1872 to 1972 at least 5.3 million immigrants came to Brazil, of whom 31% were Portuguese, 30% Italian, 13% Spanish, 5% Japanese, 4% German and 16% of other unspecified nationalities.[8]

Immigrants by Brazilian state according to 1920 Census (including naturalized immigrants)[47]
StateImmigrantsPercentage within the state population
São Paulo839,13518.2%
Federal District (Rio de Janeiro)252,95822.0%
Espírito Santo20,5324.5%
Santa Catarina39,2125.8%
Rio Grande do Sul165,9747.5%
Mato Grosso25,55610.3%
Goiás1,8140.3%
Minas Gerais91,3491.5%
Rio de Janeiro53,2613.4%
Paraná66,3879.6%
Pernambuco12,0100.5%
Piauí3440.0%
Paraíba6610.0%
Pará22,8242.3%
Maranhão1,6810.2%
Ceará9800.0%
Bahia10,9990.3%
Amazonas17,5254.8%
Alagoas7470.0%
Sergipe4220.0%
Acre3,5643.8%

In 1897, São Paulo had twice as many Italians as Brazilians in the city. In 1893, 55% of the city's population was composed by immigrants and in 1901 more than 80% of the children were born to a foreign-born parent.[48] According to the 1920 census, 35% of São Paulo's inhabitants were foreign born, compared to 36% in New York City. São Paulo's multicultural population could be compared to any major American, Canadian or Australian city. About 75% of the immigrants were Latin Europeans, particularly from three major sources: Italy, Portugal and Spain. The rest came from different parts of Europe, the Middle East and Japan.[49] Some areas of the city remained almost exclusively settled by Italians until the arrival of waves of migrants from other parts of Brazil, particularly from the Northeast, starting in the late 1920s.

According to historian Samuel H. Lowrie, in the early 20th century the society of São Paulo was divided in three classes:[49]

  • The high group: composed of graduated people, mainly by Brazilians born to Brazilian parents, who were related to the high-class farmers or other people with privileges.
  • The working class: composed of immigrants and their second and third generation descendants. They were the most numerous group, mainly factory workers or traders.
  • The semi-dependent group: composed of former slaves and low-class workers of the Empire.
Owners of industries in São Paulo (1962)[50]
Ethnic originPercentage
Italy Italians35%
Brazil Brazilians16%
Portugal Portuguese12%
Germany Germans10%
LebanonSyria Lebanese and Syrian9%
Russia Russians2.9%
Austria Austrians2.4%
Switzerland Swiss2.4%
Other Europeans9%
Others2%
City of São Paulo in 1886
ImmigrantsPercentage of immigrants in foreign born population[48]
Italy Italians48%
Portugal Portuguese29%
Germany Germans10%
Spain Spaniards3%
City of São Paulo in 1893
YearImmigrantsPercentage of the City[48]
Italy Italians45,45735%
Portugal Portuguese14,43711%
Spain Spanish4,8183.7%

According to Lowrie, the fact that Brazil already had a long history of racial mixture and that most of the immigrants in São Paulo came from Latin European countries, reduced the cases of racism and mutual intolerance. However, the Brazilian high class was more intolerant, with most of them marrying other members of the elite. In some cases, to marry an immigrant was accepted if the person had achieved fortune or had some prestige. Lowrie reports that as much as 40% of the São Paulo high-class society mixed with an immigrant within the next three generations.

While in São Paulo the Italians predominated, in Rio de Janeiro the Portuguese remained as the main group. In 1929, as many as 272,338 Portuguese immigrants were recorded in the Federal District of Brazil (nowadays the city of Rio de Janeiro), more Portuguese born people than any other city in the world, except for Lisbon (which had 591,939 inhabitants in 1930).[51]

City of Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara)
YearImmigrantsPercentage of the City[5][52]
187284,28330.65%
1890124,352 / 155,20223.79% / 29.69%
1900195,89424.14%
1906210,51525.94%
1920239,12920.65%
1940228,63312.96%
1950210,4548.85%
City of Rio de Janeiro (1890)
GroupPopulationPercentage of the City
Portugal Portuguese immigrants106,46120.36%
BrazilPortugal Brazilians who were born to a Portuguese father or mother161,20330.84%
BrazilPortugal Portuguese immigrants and descendants267,66451.2%
Rio de Janeiro City in 1940 (Guanabara)
ImmigrantsPopulation[5]
Portugal Portuguese154,662
Italy Italians17,457
Spain Spaniards12,212
Germany Germans10,185
Japan Japanese538
Others33,579

In the South of Brazil, there were three main groups of immigrants: Germans, Italians and Slavs (mainly Poles and Ukrainians). The Germans had been settling Rio Grande do Sul since 1824. The first settlers came from Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Hannover. Later, people from Hunsrück and Rhineland-Palatinate predominated. There were also people from Pomerania, Westphalia and Württemberg. These immigrants were attracted to work as small farmers in the region of São Leopoldo. As a result of the great internal migration of people in Rio Grande do Sul, Germans and second generation descendants started to move to other areas of the province.

A similar process has occurred in Santa Catarina, with initially two main destinations for German immigrants (Blumenau, created in 1850, and Joinville in 1851) and then the immigrants or their descendants moved to other areas. Arriving in larger numbers than Germans, in the 1870s, groups of Italians started settling northeast Rio Grande do Sul. Similar to Germans, they were also attracted to develop small familiar farming production. In Paraná, on the other hand, the main group of immigrants was composed of Eastern Europeans, particularly Poles.[53][54]

In southern Brazil, the immigrants settled in colônias (colonies), which were rural areas, composed of many small farms, settled by the families. Some of these colonies had a great development and gave birth to major Brazilian cities, such as the former German community of Joinville (600,000 inhabitants—the largest city of the state of Santa Catarina) or the former Italian community of Caxias do Sul (500,000 inhabitants—the second largest city of Rio Grande do Sul). Other colonies did not have a great development and remained small and agrarian. In these places, it is possible to feel more intensely the impact of the immigration, as many of these towns are still predominantly settled by a single ethnic group.

First Settlers in Londrina (1930)[55]
Ethnic GroupPopulation
Brazilians1,823
Italians611
Japanese533
Germans510
Spanish303
Portuguese218
Polish193
Ukrainians172
Hungarians138
Czechoslovakians51
Russians44
Swiss34
Austrians29
Lithuanians21
Yugoslavs15
Romanians12
English7
Argentinians5
Syrians5
Danes3
Australians2
Belgians2
Bulgarians2
French2
Latvian2
Liechtensteiner2
U.S. citizens2
Swedes2
Estonians1
Indian1
Norwegian1
Total Foreign Born Population2.923( 61.6%)
Some southern Brazilian towns with a notable main ancestry
Town name State Main ancestry Percentage
Nova Veneza Santa Catarina Italy Italian 95%[56]
Pomerode Santa Catarina Germany German 90%[57]
Dom Feliciano Rio Grande do Sul Poland Polish 90%[58]
Prudentópolis Paraná Ukraine Ukrainian 70%[59]
Treze Tílias Santa Catarina Austria Austrian 60%[60]

Statistics
Cover of the magazine "O Immigrante", published by Italian immigrants in Brazil.
European immigrants in São Paulo.
Session in honor of the visit of Prince Naruhito, heir to the throne of Japan, to the National Congress of Brazil, in Brasília. In the year that celebrated the centenary of Japanese immigration to Brazil.
German community in Pomerode.
Spaniards in São Paulo.
Arab community in Curitiba.
Italian community in Caxias do Sul.
Immigrants established in São Paulo state in 1940
ImmigrantsPopulation[61]
Italians 694,489
Spaniards 374,658
Portuguese 362,156
Japanese 85,103
Germans 50,507
Austrians 33,133
Main groups of settlers/slaves and immigrants in Brazil, according to Fernando L. B. Basto
OriginPopulation[62]
Africans (1550–1850) 3,000,000
Portuguese, pre-independence (1500–1822)
Portuguese, post-independence (1837–1968) 		800,000
1,766,771
Italians (1836–1968) 1,620,344
Spaniards (1841–1968) 719,555
Germans (1836–1968) 257,457
Japanese (1908–1968) 243,441
Russians (1871–1968) 119,215
Lebanese (1871–1968) 100,246
Austrians (1868–1968) 98,457
Poles (1892–1968) 54,078
French (1842–1968) 50,341
Romanians (1908–1968) 40,799
Americans (1884–1968) 38,934
British (1847–1968) 38,080
Lithuanians (1920–1963) 29,002
Yugoslavs (1920–1968) 27,726
Argentines (1884–1968) 25,553
Syrians (1892–1968) 24,394
Swiss (1820–1968) 21,704
Greeks (1893–1968) 16,684
Dutch (1884–1968) 15,829
Hungarians (1908–1968) 13,592
Uruguayans (1884–1968) 10,836
Belgians (1847–1968) 9,173
Chinese (1895–1968) 7,996
Swedes (1853–1968) 7,994
Czechs and Slovaks (1920–1968) 6,538
Danes (1886–1968) 4,029
Jordanians (1953–1968) 3,567
Estonians (1923–1961) 2,803
Koreans (1956–1968) 2,500
Latvians (1924–1961) 2,444
Egyptians (1895–1968) 2,283
Paraguayans (1886–1968) 2,271
Canadians (1925–1968) 1,631
Peruvians (1885–1968) 1,600
Ukrainians (1920–1967) 1,415
Norwegians (1888–1968) 1,136
Venezuelans (1886–1968) 1,076
Finns (1819–1968) 992
Iranians (1922–1968) 735
Bulgarians (1908–1968) 557
Luxembourgers (1919–1968) 473
Australians (1946–1968) 320
Irish (1940–1968) 176
Scottish (1945–1961) 6
Arrival of settlers, slaves, and immigrants, by origin, periods from 1500 to 1933
Source: Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Period
Origin 1500–1700 1701–1760 1761–1829 1830–1855 1856–1883 1884–1893 1894–1903 1904–1913 1914–1923 1924–1933
Africans 510,000 958,000 1,720,000 618,000 — — — — — —
Portugal Portuguese 100,000 600,000 26,000 16,737 116,000 170,621 155,542 384,672 201,252 233,650
Italy Italians — — — — 100,000 510,533 537,784 196,521 86,320 70,177
Spain Spaniards — — — — — 113,116 102,142 224,672 94,779 52,405
Germany Germans — — 5,003 2,008 30,000 22,778 6,698 33,859 29,339 61,723
Japan Japanese — — — — — — — 11,868 20,398 110,191
LebanonSyria Lebanese & Syrians — — — — — 96 7,124 45,803 20,400 20,400
RussiaPolandUkraine Slavs — — — — — 66,524 42,820 109,222 51,493
Museu da Imigração in São Paulo.
Swiss immigrants moving to Brazil.
American descendants in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.
European immigrants in São Paulo.
German community in Curitiba.
Jewish community in São Paulo.
Polish descendants in Brazil.
Farms with foreign ownership (1920)
ImmigrantsFarms
Italians35,984
Portuguese9,552
Germans6,887
Spanish4,725
Russians4,471
Austrians4,292
Japanese1,167
Hungarian Immigration to Brazil
PassportImmigrants[63]
Romanian30,437
Yugoslav16,518
Hungarian6,501
Austrian2,742
Czechoslovak518
Total56,716
Lebanese and Syrians Immigrants (1920) – French Consulate Estimation
LocationImmigrants
São Paulo and Santos130,000
Pará20,000
Rio de Janeiro15,000
Rio Grande do Sul14,000
Bahia12,000
Main groups of settlers and immigrants in Brazil, from 1500 to 1972, according to multiple sources[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]
Nationality/origin Number of settlers
Africans1 4,335,800
Portuguese 2,714,314
Italians 1,649,536
Spaniards 717,424
Germans2 260,478
Japanese 248,007
Poles3 200,000
Lebanese/ Syrians4 140,464
Russians5 118,600
French 100,000
Ukrainians 61,000
Lithuanians 57,620
Hungarians 56,716
Greeks 17,018
Dutch 14,298
Scandinavians 13,159
Americans 10,000
^1 It includes all people who were brought from Sub-Saharan Africa.
^2 It does not include Germans who immigrated with Russian and Soviet passports (see Volga Germans).
^3 Many Poles immigrated to Brazil with German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian passports.
^4 It includes Greeks and Armenians who immigrated with Ottoman passports (see Ottoman Greeks and Ottoman Armenians) and other Middle Eastern peoples such as Palestinians and Egyptians.
^5 It includes a majority of Poles, Ukrainians, Balts, Germans, Ashkenazi Jews and other peoples who immigrated with Russian or Soviet passports.

Consequences
Passport of a Portuguese immigrant, 1927.
German colonies in Southern Brazil.
Syrian descendants in São Paulo.
American family in Americana.
Russian descendants in São Paulo.
German community in Blumenau.
Ukrainian church in Curitiba.
Italian students in Campinas.
German Brazilians in 1874.
Italian disembarkment in Santos, São Paulo, 1907.
Ryo Mizuno (at center), who organized the first travel of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.

Brazilian demographers have long discussed the demographical impact of the wave of emigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to Judicael Clevelário,[76] most studies about the impact of immigration have followed Giorgio Mortara's conclusions in the 1940s and 1950s. Mortara concluded that only about 15% of the demographic growth of Brazil, from 1840 and 1940 was due to immigration, and that the population of immigrant origin was of 16% of the total population of Brazil.[77]

However, according to Clevelário, Mortara failed to properly take into account the full endogenous growth of the population of immigrant origin,: 52  due to the predominantly rural settlement of the immigrants (rural regions tend to have higher natal rates than cities). Clevelário, then, besides extending the calculations up to 1980, remade them, reaching somewhat different conclusions.

One of the problems of calculating the impact of immigration in Brazilian demography is that the return rates of immigrants are unknown. Clevelário, thence, supposed four different hypothesis concerning the return rates. The first, that he deems unrealistic high, is that 50% of the immigrants to Brazil returned to their countries of origin. The second is based on the work of Arthur Neiva, who supposes the return rate for Brazil was higher than that of the United States (30%) but lower than that of Argentina (47%). The third hypothesis is taken from Mortara, who postulates a rate of 20% for the 19th century, 35% for the first two decades of the 20th century, and 25% for 1920 on. Although Mortara himself considered this hypothesis underestimated, Clevelário thinks it is closest to reality. The last hypothesis, also admittedly unrealistic is that of a 0% rate of return, which is known to be false.: 57 

Clevelário's conclusions are as following: considering hypothesis 1 (unrealistically high), the Population of Immigrant Origin in 1980 would be of 14,730,710 people, or 12.38% of the total population. Considering hypothesis 2 (based on Neiva), it would be of 17,609,052 people, or 14.60% of the total population. Considering hypothesis 3 (based on Mortara, and considered most realistic), it would be of 22,088,829 people, or 18.56% of the total population. Considering hypothesis 4 (no return at all), the Population of Immigrant origin would be of 29,348,423 people, or 24.66% of the total population.[78] Clevelário believes the most probable number to be close to 18%, higher than Mortara's previous estimate of 1947.: Abstract, p. 71  According to the Census of 1872, there were 9,930,478 people in Brazil, of which 3,787,289 (38.14%) Whites, 3,380,172 (34.04%) Pardos, 1.954.452 (19.68%) Blacks, and 386,955 (3.90%) Caboclos. The White population grew faster than the non-White population due to the subsidized immigration of Europeans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1890, the non-White population was reduced to 47% and the Amerindian to 9%.[79] During this period, most immigrants came from Italy (58.49%) followed by Portugal with 20%.[16]

The disproportionally fast growth of the White population, due to mass immigration, lasted up to 1940, when its proportion in the Brazilian population peaked at 63.5%.[79] During the 1900–1940 period, Italian immigration was greatly reduced, due to the Prinetti decree, forbidding subsidized emigration to Brazil in 1902, then to the Italian war effort of 1915–1918. Thence, for the period of 1904–1940, Portuguese immigration became the main drive of immigration to Brazil, with 36.52% of the arrivals, compared to 14.99% of Italians.[16]

The Brazilian Censuses do not ask questions about "ethnic origin", so there are no systematically comparable data about the impact of immigration. Varied entities, mainly embassies of foreign countries in Brazil and commercial associations that promote bilateral commerce between Brazil and other countries, make claims about the figures of "descendants of immigrants" in Brazil, but none links to any actual survey. Also, if they are extrapolations of actual data on the number of immigrants, the calculations are not explained anywhere.

On the other hand, in 1998, the IBGE, within its preparation for the 2000 Census, experimentally introduced a question about "origem" (origin/ancestry) in its "Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego" (Monthly Employment Research), to test the viability of introducing that variable in the Census[80]: 3  (the IBGE ended by deciding against the inclusion of questions about it in the Census). This research interviewed about 90,000 people in six metropolitan regions (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, and Recife).[81] To this day, it remains the only actual published survey about the immigrant origin of Brazilians.

Here are its results:[82]

Brazilian Population, by ancestry, 1998[80]
Ancestry%
Brazil "Brazilian"86.09%
Portugal Portuguese10.46%
Italy Italian10.41%
Indigenous6.64%
Black5.09%
Spain Spanish4.40%
Germany German3.54%
African2.06%
Japan Japanese1.34%
LebanonSyria Lebanese/Syrian0.48%
Israel Jewish0.20%
Others2.81%
Total133.52%

Notice that the total is higher than 100% because of multiple answers. It is easy to see that the results of this research are widely incompatible with the claims made by embassies and commercial associations:

Comparison between claims by embassies, commercial associations, etc., and actual data
Ancestry Number of immigrants Ancestry in Brazil (claims by embassies, etc.) Found by 1998 PME (%) Projection
Germany Germans240,0005,000,0003.54%6,372,000
Italy Italians1,622,49125,000,00010.41%18,738,000
Spain Spaniards716,05215,000,0004.40%7,920,000
LebanonSyria Lebanese/Syrians100,00010,000,0000.48%864,000
Japan Japanese248,0071,600,0001.34%2,412,000

The embassy figures are also hardly compatible with the known data for immigration. Here is how they compare:

Number of immigrants and their purported descendants, by national origin
Origin Immigrants[83] Descendants Descendants
per immigrant
Germany German223,6585,000,00022.36
LebanonSyria Lebanese/Syrian140,00010,000,00071.43
Spain Spanish716,47815,000,00020.94
Italy Italian1,623,93125,000,00015.39
Japan Japanese248,0071,400,0005.65

The embassy figures for "Arab Brazilians" imply an impossible rate of childbirth. The process of inflation of the "Arab Brazilian" population is described by John Tofik Karam:[84] Maintaining a privileged presence in business and political circles, Middle Easterners have overestimated themselves as a way to strengthen their place in the Brazilian nation.

Among the groups listed in the table, German immigrants arrived quite early in Brazil, starting in the 1820s. By 1883, 23.86% of them had already arrived. Italian immigrants only started to arrive in the 1870s, coming in enormous numbers until 1902, when Italian immigration declined sharply. By 1903, 70.33% of them had already arrived. Spaniards started arriving about the same time as the Italians, but came in more steady pace, which means that, in average, they represent a more recent immigration. Arabs only started to arrive in considerable numbers about 1890, making them the second most recent immigration, after the Japanese, who started to arrive in 1908. Evidently, the older the immigration, higher should be the descendant/immigrant relation—but, as the table shows, the embassy figures would place the Arab descendant/immigrant relation first—and, in fact, more than three times higher than that of the Germans.

When the number of immigrants is compared to the findings of the July 1998 PME, the results are different:

Number of immigrants and their descendants, projected from the 1998 PME, by national origin
Origin Immigrants[83] Descendants[85] Descendants
per immigrant
Germany German223,6584,709,85721.06
LebanonSyria Lebanese/Syrian140,000641,2004.58
Spain Spanish716,4785,856,4178.17
Italy Italian1,623,93113,847,4718.53
Japan Japanese248,0071,776,3827.16

Here the correct order is reestablished, except for the Arabs appearing with a lower descendant/immigrant rate than the Japanese. This, however, is probably due to the concentration of Nikkeis in São Paulo, as opposed to a less concentrated distribution of "Arab Brazilians", who are present in considerable numbers in regions not counted by the PMEs—notably the Northern Region, the West of Paraná State, and Southern Rio Grande do Sul.[86]

Nowadays, it's possible to find millions of descendants of Italians, from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais to the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the majority living in the state of São Paulo (15.9 million)[87] and the highest percentage in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo (60–75%).[87][88][89][90] Small southern Brazilian towns, such as Nova Veneza, have as much as 95% of their population of Italian descent.[56]

Ukrainians in Brazil.

As happened with several other countries in the Americas, such as the United States, which received immigration from many countries, Brazil quickly became a melting pot of races and nationalities, but being peculiar in the sense of having the highest degree of intermarriage in the world.[91]

Thousands of White Americans from the Southern United States (including relatives of former president Jimmy Carter), known as Confederados, fled to Brazil after the American Civil War, where they settled in the city of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste[92] and founded a city nearby, Americana.[93]

Opposition to immigration
This section is an excerpt from Opposition to immigration § Brazil.[edit]

Brazil is a country of immigrants and developed a reputation for "warm welcome" of people all over the world. Nevertheless, different analysts often dispute how truthful this image is and, although openly xenophobic manifestation were uncommon, some scholars denounce it existence in more subtle ways.[94]

Despite the fact that Brazil was considered a safe haven for neighboring refugees and immigrants, xenophobic violence has erupted. Brazil received up to 3000 Syrian refugees becoming the largest receiver of such in Latin America.[95] However, xenophobic and islamophobic attacks were reported against Syrian refugees and Muslims in general.[95] After the alleged beating of a shop owner during a robbery by alleged Venezuelan migrants, riots occurred in the Brazilian-Venezuelan border which included attacks on Venezuelans nationals, destruction of refugee tents and fires.[96] 1200 Venezuelans went back to their homeland as a result and the administration of President Michel Temer increased military personnel in the border. The burning of the refugee camps was reported in national and international news outlet and the authorities announce they will investigate and prosecute the authors.

During the Brazilian general election in 2018, then far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said the government should not turn its back on popular sentiment in Roraima, and proposed the creation of refugee camps with the help of the United Nations.[97] Once he became president, Bolsonaro said he would adopt more rigorous criteria for the entry of foreigners to Brazil, but ruled that he would not repatriate Venezuelan immigrants to their country.[98]

Co-official languages in Brazil
Main article: Languages of Brazil
Festa do Imigrante in São Paulo.
German children in Blumenau, 1866.
Syrian refugees in Rio de Janeiro.
Municipalities where the Pomeranian language is co-official in Espírito Santo.
European immigrants in Brazil.
Arab immigrants in São Paulo.
Japan Square in Curitiba.
Hungarian immigrants in Brazil.
Italian family in Brusque.
Dutch descendants in Holambra.
Italian houses in Nova Veneza.

In this century has grown a recent trend of co-official languages in cities populated by immigrants (such as Italian and German) or indigenous in the north, both with support from the Ministry of Tourism, as was recently established in Santa Maria de Jetibá, Pomerode and Vila Pavão,[99] where German also has co-official status.[100]

The first municipality to adopt a co-official language in Brazil was São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in 2002.[101][102] Since then, other municipalities attempt to co-officialise other languages.

The states of Santa Catarina[103][104][105] and Rio Grande do Sul have Talian officially approved as a heritage language in these states,[106] and Espírito Santo has the East Pomeranian dialect, along with the German language, such as cultural heritage state.[107][108][109][110]

Brazilian states with linguistic heritages officially approved statewide

[115]

Amazonas

Mato Grosso do Sul

Roraima

Tocantins
Rio Grande do Sul
Santa Catarina
Espírito Santo
Minas Gerais
Santa Catarina
Rio Grande do Sul
Rondônia
Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Espírito Santo
Paraná
Rio Grande do Sul
Santa Catarina
Rio Grande do Sul
Santa Catarina

See also

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