Brasiguayos
Under brasiguayos be Brazilian settlers (and their descendants) meant that in the border region Brazil-Paraguay Paraguayan settled soil. They live mainly in the departments of Canindeyú and Alto Paraná in the east of the country. The majority of the Brasiguayos are farmers and speak mostly Portuguese . Their number is estimated at around 350,000. There are around 150,000 Brasiguayos of German descent, many of whom still speak German-Brazilian vernacular among themselves.
History of the Brasiguayos
In 1943 there were no more than 500 Brazilian farmers in all of Paraguay. Between 1950 and 1970, the proportion of the Brazilian population remained constant at three to four percent.
From 1970, massive immigration from Brazil began . The majority came from the Brazilian state of Paraná . In 1967, the Paraguayan government revoked a law prohibiting foreigners from purchasing land within 150 km of the state border. At the same time, increasing mechanization of soy production in the Brazilian state of Paraná has led to a concentration of agricultural holdings in this region. This led to a migration of the smaller farmers to the neighboring country Paraguay. By the late 1970s, the country on the Paraguayan side was eight times cheaper than in Brazil.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Albuquerque, JL (2010). A Dinâmica das Fronteiras: os Brasiguaios na Fronteira entre o Brasil eo Paraguai. First edition. São Paulo: Anna flower.
- ↑ Paraguay Magazine
- ↑ Estrada, M. (2015). The impact of land policies on international migration: The case of the Brasiguaios. IMI Working Paper 120, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford. Available at http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-impact-of-land-policies-on-international-migration-the-case-of-the-brasiguaios