Title   A emigração do Distrito de Aveiro para o Brasil : (1936-1945) (Original)
          Emigration from the District of Aveiro to Brazil: (1936-1945) (EN)
Author  Ivo Filipe Oliveira Nogueira
Advisor  Fernando Alberto Pereira de Sousa
Year  2012
Institution  Faculty of Law, Lusíada Univeristy of Porto
Degree  Masters
Area  International Relations
Keywords  International Relations, Migration Movements, Portugal, Brazil, 1936-1945, International Migration, European Emigration, 20th Century, Portuguese Emigration, Northern Portugal-Brazil, History of Portugal, Diplomatic History, Portugal-Brazil
URI http://hdl.handle.net/11067/2876

Abstract

Migrations constitute one of the most important phenomena of the International Relations. Being a constant of the History of Portugal throughout the centuries and an unavoidable aspect for the study of the Portugal-Brazil relations date 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 Aveiro District to Brazil from the the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War years (1939-1945), through the survey, treatmenl and analysis of the data gathered at the passport record-books from Aveiro‘s Civil Government, which are part of the documental collection of the 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 north of Portugal going to Brazil, highlighting the volume of the departing individuals and its relalive importance in the national context their distribution by destination, birthplace, gender, marital status, age groups, social and professional classfication 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 then 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 the Portuguese emigration to Brazil, in a particular period of History - World War II - when the transatlantic emigration is conditioned, leading to a pronounced reduction of the volume of Portuguese emigrants crossing the Atlantic.