Elaboração, ação e reação : o projeto de controle dos estrangeiros no Estado Novo e seus reflexos na comunidade italiana do estado De São Paulo / Preparation, action and reaction : the project of control over foreignets in the "Estado Novo" and itsconsequence in the italian community of São Paulo

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/02/2012

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Throughout the 1930 s, Getulio Vargas s government took several measures of social control to obtain wider support and weaken the opposition to his State project. These measures also aimed to better control the foreign community here installed, and from 1938 the government started publishing decrees especially prepared for dealing with problems that the government believed the foreigners were likely to bring. Among these problems, political activity was a central one. During that period the Italian community suffered the influence of the fascist government that had been investing in political propaganda targeting the emigrant community since the 1920 s, with the intention of elevating Italy s international prestige and also gaining support for their project. In order to do that, they invested in the organization of their subjects through associations of all sorts, the press and other institutions. The efforts to implement both State projects affected the Italian community of São Paulo. In the mid 1930 s, when the diplomatic channels between both countries were open, the Italians here installed were able to maintain an expressive ethnic association network. But, with the tensions between both nations rising because of the international agenda, the conditions for the Italians to manifest their nationalist and ethnic sentiment of belonging got tougher, a situation aggravated by Brazil s decision to join the Allies in World War II. Against Vargas s measures of foreign control, the Italian community of São Paulo sought ways to react and adapt. The setting of Brazil s foreign control project, the police actions to run the project and the Italian community s reaction have much to say about the intentions and political standings of the Brazilian State at the time and about its manners of dealing with the national society. It also reveals the relationship of the Italian community with their national and ethnical feelings, with politics, with their own group and, last but not least, with Brazilian society.

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imigrantes italianos perseguição politica immigrants italians political persecution brazil

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