Portuguese emigration to Brazil in the context of the great European migrations. The case of the Bragança district (1850-1911)

Maria da Conceição Cordeiro Salgado

The present study aims to analyze the importance and characteristics of Portuguese emigration within the context of major European migrations, particularly the economic, political, and social determinants of the migratory phenomenon in Northeast Portugal, from the beginning of the Regeneration period (1850) to the dawn of the First Portuguese Republic (1911). The book is structured into three parts: the first part has a theoretical nature, the second part provides the historical context, and the third part offers a more specific and intensive analysis of our case study: the emigration originating from the district of Bragança to Brazil, including the analysis of some particularly successful emigrants.
This work characterizes the national and international context of the migratory phenomenon during the specified period and provides a detailed and integrated analysis of the regional migratory phenomenon. The main issue addressed is the identification of the social, political, economic and demographic factors—local, national, and international—that explain the migratory phenomenon of the district of Bragança during the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, aiming to demonstrate the local specificity of emigration from this district and its relationship with transatlantic migratory flows.
To this end, combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies and techniques, the study presents the main dynamics that characterized the context of emigration from Bragança to Brazil during this period. It also provides a sociodemographic profile of emigration from the district of Bragança based on passport records, identifying the region's structural underdevelopment as the main push and pull factor for the emigration of its population.

Note: The book is available at CEPESE's Library.