page_title: Immigration to Brazil
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Immigration to Brazil / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: Carte de la couverture de la revue "O imigrante".
context_page_description: Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign peoples to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese, or with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves.
  Throughout its history, Brazil has always been a recipient of immigrants, 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 colonizers. Since then, those who entered the independent nation were immigrants.
  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.
context_section_description: Most of the Poles immigrated to Brazil with German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian/Austrian passports, the Ukrainians with Austrian passports and the Hungarians with Romanian passports.
  It includes all people who were brought from Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Includes Andalucians, Basques, Castilians, Catalans, and Galicians.
  It does not include Germans who immigrated with Russian passports (see Volga Germans).
  Most of the Poles immigrated to Brazil with German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian/Austrian passports.
  Most of immigrants from the Levant, which included Orthodox Greeks in Lebanon and Ottoman Greeks, carried Ottoman passports.
caption: Cover of the magazine "O Immigrante", published by Italian immigrants in Brazil.
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