Bolivians in Brazil
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Total population | |
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350,000 [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Brazil:
Mainly Southeastern Brazil Center-Western Brazil · border regions and some metropolises along Northern Brazil | |
Languages | |
Bolivian Spanish · Portuguese Minority: Guaraní · Aymará · possibly other Amerindian languages as Quechua | |
Religion | |
Mostly Roman Catholicism and Folk religions. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bolivians other Brazilian, Spanish, Hispanic and Hispanophone people |
Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil have begun to develop an agreement to regularize the situation of several thousand undocumented Bolivian immigrants in Brazil.[2] According to estimates by the Ministry's of Latin American immigrants and the National Association of Immigrants from Brazil more than 200,000 Bolivians are working illegally in São Paulo.[3][4]
Nowadays, the Bolivians constitute the biggest group of foreigners living in the country, with an estimated 350,000 Bolivian nationals currently living in Brazil.[5]
History
[edit]Bolivians started coming to Brazil in small numbers during the 1950s, with current levels of immigration beginning in the 1980s. The numbers vary according to the source, but it is a fact that the information given by the media is very different from academic and official estimates.[6]
Demographics
[edit]About 40% of Bolivians go to the city of São Paulo, around 10% of Bolivians go to the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the border cities of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul) and Guajará-Mirim (Rondônia) receive about 5% of the total each.[7] Ethnographic reports have found that Bolivians in Corumbá are regularly subject to racial discrimination.[8]
Notable Bolivian Brazilians
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "O Brasil tem pouco imigrante". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ El Reloj.(Spanish) Archived December 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bolivianos são o grupo mais atingido pela tuberculose em São Paulo.Agência Brasil. (Portuguese) Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mas de 200.00 Bolivianos trabajan en Sao Paulo (Spanish). Archived December 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "O Brasil tem pouco imigrante". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ Magalhães, Giovanna Modé; Schilling, Flávia (2012). "Imigrantes da Bolívia na escola em São Paulo: fronteiras do direito à educação". Pro-Posições (in Portuguese). 23 (1): 43–64. doi:10.1590/S0103-73072012000100004. ISSN 0103-7307.
- ^ Perfil migratorio mte.gov.br [dead link]
- ^ da Costa, Gustavo Villela Lima (April 2015). "Os Bolivianos Em Corumbá-MS: Conflitos E Relações De Poder Na Fronteira". Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. 21: 35–63. doi:10.1590/0104-93132015v21n1p035.