Title   A emigração portuguesa para o Brasil, no contexto das grandes migrações europeias. O caso do distrito de Bragança (Original)
          Portuguese emigration to Brazil in the context of the great European migrations. The case of the Bragança district (EN)
Author  Maria da Conceição Cordeiro Salgado
Advisor  Pedro Emanuel dos Santos Mendes
Year  2018
Institution Lusíada University of Porto 
Degree  PhD
Area  International Relations, migratory flows, emigration, Portugal - Brasil, Bragança, International migration
Keywords  International relations
URI http://hdl.handle.net/11067/4338

Abstract

The present work aims to analyse the importance and characteristics of Portuguese emigration in the context of the great European migrations, in particular the economic, political and social determinants of the migratory phenomenon of Northeast Portugal, in a timeline between the beginning of Regeneration (1850) and the dawn of the First Portuguese Republic (1911). It is structured in three parts. A first part with a theoretical nature, a second part devoted to historical contextualization, and a third part with a more specific and intensive analysis of our case study: emigration from the Bragança district to Brazil. This work characterizes the national and international context of the migratory phenomenon in the mentioned period and makes a detailed and interrelated analysis of the regional migratory phenomenon of our case study. The main problem is the identification of social, political, economic and demographic factors – local, national and international – that help explaining the migratory phenomenon of the district of Bragança at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. It seeks to demonstrate the local specificities of the emigration of the district of Bragança, as well as its relation with the transatlantic migratory flows. To achieve this result, combining quantitative and qualitative/interpretative methodologies, it traces a sociodemographic profile of the emigration of the district of Bragança based on passport records, presenting the main economic, social, political and cultural dynamics that characterized the context of the emigration of this district to Brazil in this period. Lastly, it identifies the structural underdevelopment of the region as the main push and pull cause for the emigration of its population.