The name immigrant is given to any individual who takes up residence in a country other than his or her home country. Lately, the word immigrant has been widely used to refer to people who leave their country of origin in search of employment and housing, as is the case of Haitians.
Immigrant is not a term referring to people who live. within the same country and move to another city or state. To be. considered an immigrant, the individual must have crossed political boundaries.
For an immigrant to be welcomed into a territory. foreign, it is necessary that it complies with immigration laws and rules. established by each country.
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Immigration is when a country receives foreigners, individually or in groups, and they take up residence to live or. work and participate in the social life of the place where they live.
Immigration is the vision and perspective of the host country. individual who moves to a foreign country. In other words, it is the input of whoever comes. from another country to work or live, being called an immigrant.
The term emigration refers to the exodus of a population by. political, religious or other reasons. We see this type of emigration today at. day in the case of Venezuela, where many foreigners are seeking refuge from one. dictator government in our country. Simply put, emigration gets that. denomination when a citizen leaves his homeland in order to settle in one. strange country.
For the country of origin, this citizen is called an emigrant.
Both immigration and emigration are well-founded practices. by law. Emigration, for example, is stipulated in the fundamental law, from the beginning. Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
“Everyone has the right to leave the country in which. you are, including yours, and the right to return to your country.”
Want an example to make it easy to understand and record. quickly? A person who lives in Brazil and moves to the United States. to work, here in his homeland he is called “emigrant” and in the States. United he is called an “immigrant”.
Here in Brazil, many foreigners came forced, especially during slavery. In 1808, with the arrival of the royal family and the subsequent abolition of slavery, many immigrants came to the country in search for services for the coffee plantation and it was an initiative of the State or of individuals, mainly of farmers.
The vast majority of these foreigners were destined for. coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo, but many were destined for the. urban centers such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
At the time of slavery, the slave trade brought with it. more than 4 million Africans as slaves. Unfortunately, Brazil was. the country that received the most African slaves in all of history.
Among the main groups of immigrants who came to the. Brazil meet:
During the Ice Age, indigenous peoples were the. first to occupy territory on Brazilian soil. Genetically, Indians are. of Asian origin and probably arrived here via the strait of. Bering, on a little-known date.
During the Discovery of Brazil, it is known that they existed. between 1.8 million to 6 million indigenous people. In the year 1500, the first. Portuguese landed in the country, on the current Brazilian coast. With this big one. movement of immigration, it is estimated that, until the end of Brazil Colony, in 1822, between 500 and 700 thousand Portuguese had moved to the country.
The Constitution in 1934 greatly restricted the coming of. foreigners to the country, due to restrictive measures against these peoples.
Every migratory movement that takes place in our country leaves. deep marks in history, both in demographic and cultural sense e. economic. Since the 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil has been known. as a welcoming country for several European immigrants (Portuguese, Spanish, German. and Italians) and Japanese immigrants to work in agriculture.
From the 19th century onwards, Brazil started to receive several. immigrants from Europe, mainly from Italy, followed by Germans e. Spanish people. Japanese and Syrian Lebanese started to migrate here early on. 20th century.
Between 1884 and 1959, they entered Brazil about. 4,734,494 immigrants, 1,391,898 Portuguese and 1. 507,695 Italians. In between. the years 1820 and 1975 Brazil received 5,674,569 immigrants in total.
However, in the 1960s, things started to change. Brazil. started to expel workers and send to the United States, Paraguay, a. Europe and Japan. Until recently, the country has been experiencing growth in immigration, mainly from countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela, Portugal and Haiti.
As both phenomena correspond to the voluntary departure from. individuals from their country of origin, the loss of manpower is also notorious. country in question. However, for the country that welcomes immigrants, one can happen. phenomenon called “overpopulation”, where jobs are smaller. than the available manpower.
The countries that receive the most immigrants are in territories. Americans and immigrants are basically of European, Japanese and origin. Chinese. It is important to always keep in mind that whatever the origin of. any immigrant, they have the right by law to leave their home country. and take up residence in another location.
We must never despise people from other cultures and others. races, since each group of people that enters our territory contributes. somehow with the cultural and ethnic development in our country.
Unfortunately, not all world leaders think that way, resulting in civil wars and turf battles. One of the most crass and immoral examples of a leader who did not accept the immigration of other peoples was that of Adolf Hitler, who exterminated thousands of Jews considering them as “scum”.
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