Two perspectives about the international migration in brazilian northeast

Abstract

The object of this article is the international migration to the Northeast Brazilian region. We have delimited the study into three periods. The first one was the the second half of the 19th century to the 1940s, the second one was from the Post-War until the 1980s, and the last one was from the 1990s until 2018. We seek to answer the following questions with our study: a) Who are the immigrants? b) How did they insert themselves? What were the consequences of their presence under social, economic, political, and cultural aspects? The study based on this article was motivated on the necessity of knowing and giving more visibility to immigrants’ subject in the Brazilian Northeast. The search to responses to our research questions was based on two perspectives. The first one, on the studies developed by the study and research group on "Identifying Processes and Power" of Universidade Federal de Sergipe (GEPPIP/UFS) and the second one on thesis and dissertations produced by Graduate Programs of Northeast States. As a result, we identified that the immigrants' flow in the first and third periods was more intense. We observed that in the first period the immigrants came from Europe and in the third, came from Europe, Asia, and Africa.These immigrants inserted themselves as workers, businessmen, and students. Their presence brought political, social, economic, and cultural changes. These changes, mostly overlapped, for instance, religion had importance in social and economic insertion of these immigrants in the cities where they have lived.