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*From 1904 to 1930, 2,142,781 immigrants came to Brazil. Italian immigration had, at this stage, a drastic reduction: in this period they were only 19,000 annually. The '''Portuguese''' constituted 38% of entries, followed by '''Spaniards''' with 22%. A number of '''Jewish immigrants'''' arrived in the 1920s. | *From 1904 to 1930, 2,142,781 immigrants came to Brazil. Italian immigration had, at this stage, a drastic reduction: in this period they were only 19,000 annually. The '''Portuguese''' constituted 38% of entries, followed by '''Spaniards''' with 22%. A number of '''Jewish immigrants'''' arrived in the 1920s. | ||
*From 1932 to 1935 immigrants from '''Japan''' constituted 30% of total admissions. | *From 1932 to 1935 immigrants from '''Japan''' constituted 30% of total admissions. | ||
*During the 1970s, Brazil received about 32,000 '''Lebanese immigrants escaping the civil war''', as well as smaller numbers of '''Palestinians and Syrians'''. | |||
*Between 1974 and 1980, Brazil also received almost 500 Portuguese settler families fleeing '''Angola or Mozambique''' as well as some 1,000 exiles from Portugal proper, many of them '''serving officers of the Portuguese Military or Police''', fleeing post-Carnation Revolution Portugal because of their association with the former regime. | |||
*During the 1990s. Brazil received small numbers of immigrants from the former republics of '''Yugoslavia, from Afghanistan and West Africa (mostly Angolans)'''. | |||
*Recent immigration is mainly constituted by '''Chinese and Koreans''' and, in a smaller degree, by '''Argentines and other Latin American immigrants'''. | |||
*Because of political issues, people from '''Bolivia''' immigrate to Brazil. Between 1,200 and 1,500 Bolivian immigrants come to Brazil every month looking for a job. There are an estimated 200,000 Bolivians living in the Greater São Paulo, the majority of which are undocumented immigrants.[28] | |||
*In 2010, Brazil is home to 4,251 refugees from 76 different nationalities. The largest refugee ancestries were '''Angolan''' (1,688), '''Colombian''' (583), '''Congolese''' (402), '''Liberian''' (259), and '''Iraqi''' (197). | |||
*Due to the Venezuelan refugee crisis, in 2017, 22,000 new '''Venezuelan refugees''' sought shelter in Brazil. By mid-2019, over 168,000 Venezuelans were living in Brazil.<ref>"Immigration to Brazil", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Brazil, accessed 18 May 2021.</ref> | |||
==Passenger Lists== | ==Passenger Lists== | ||