Title   A emigração do Distrito de Aveiro para o Brasil durante a grande depressão: (1928-1935) (Original)
          Emigration from the Aveiro District to Brazil during the Great Depression: (1928-1935) (EN)
Author  Rui Miguel de Moreira Pires
Advisor  Fernando Alberto Pereira de Sousa
Year  2012
Institution  Faculty of Law, Lusíada University of Porto
Degree  Masters
Area  International Relations
Keywords  International relations, migratory movements, Portugal, Brazil, Internatinal migration, European emigration, XX Century, Portuguese emigration, History of Portugal, Diplomatic History 
URI http://hdl.handle.net/11067/2874

Abstract

Migrations constitute one of the most important phenomena of the International Relations. Being Portugal the first western nation ever to build an empire and the last. To being decomposed migrations are constant of the History of Portugal throughout the centuries and an unavoidable a.specl for lhe study of the Portugal-Brazil relations due to its impact at the political, economic and social levels, we choose as the object of study for this work the analysis and characterization of the emigration from the district of Aveiro to Brazil during the Great Depression through the survey, treatment and analysis of the data gathered at the passport record-books from Aveiro's Civil Government, which are part of the documental collection of lhe Aveiro District Archive. Through the use of statistical methods of interpretation of the data obtained from the analysis of the passports records issued by Aveiro's Civil Government, we draw the profile of the emigrant from the district of Aveiro going to Brazil, highlighting the volume of the departing individuals and its relative importance in the national context; their distribution by destination birthplace, gender, marital status, age groups, social and professional classjflcalion and familiar or professional groupings. Without limiting ourselves to a mere statistical description on the migratory flows, we will try and study the factors that explain this phenomenon, framing them in their endogenous and exogenous constraints resulting from national and international political and economic evolution, which are simultaneously factors of repulse and attraction that promote and reflect themselves in lhe Portuguese emigration to Brazil, in a particular period of History: the Great Depression.