Studia Historica: Historia Contemporánea (May 2011)

Undesirable inmigrants: spaniards expelled from Rio de Janeiro, 1907-1930

  • Víctor David ZAMORANO BLANCO

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 0
pp. 275 – 307

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This paper aims to expose the situation of several Spanish immigrants settled in Rio de Janeiro during 20th century first-third, who were affected by Lei Gordo (1907), which ruled misfit foreigners’ expulsion from Brazil. Our aim is twofold: on the one hand, to examine how some social exclusion factors that immigrants faced, specially living and labour conditions, influenced this process; and, on the other, to analyze who this indesejáveis were, and how they came to this categorization.

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