International migration and the history of education in the Brazilian countryside.
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2022
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During the Age of Mass Migration, circa 250 thousand German-speakers
immigrated to Brazil. Even if numerically limited, these immigrants played a central
role in the consolidation of the Brazilian culture, society, and economy. The German-
speaking immigration to Brazil also influenced the country’s settlement policies in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and had a feedback effect on global labor
markets during the first age of globalization. In this compilation for the Global Migra-
tion Studies, Flavia da Silva Varolo discusses in an interview her research on German
settlements in the Riograndense Colony, a project for land selling to foreigners in the
western portion of the state of São Paulo. She debates the persistence of cultural
habits among descendants of immigrants and the negative effects of violently im-
posed assimilation, such as that perpetrated by the Brazilian State in the 1930s-1940s.
As a linguist and education historian, Ms. Varolo highlights the importance of inter-
disciplinarity for studying immigration history. In the sequence, Luiz Mateus da Silva
Ferreira revises Varolo’s book. His review puts the case study at hand into the general
framework of the Age of Mass Migration and presents economic aspects related to
education history. The review also points to the need of critically assessing the at-
tempts of influence exercised by the NSDAP over regions that had received German-
speaking immigrants in Latin America since the nineteenth century.
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Settlement policies, Settlement colonies, Landownership, Latin america, Brazil
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VAROLO, F. R. da S.; FERREIRA, L. M. da S.; SOUZA, B. G. W. de. International migration and the history of education in the Brazilian countryside. Global Migration Studies, n. 5, 2022. Disponível em: <https://publications.goettingen-research-online.de/handle/2/111958>. Acesso em: 01 mar. 2023.