147 years of Italian immigration in Brazil they are celebrated this Sunday, day February 21. The date marks the arrival of the ship La Sofia to Victory.
The disembarkation of the Italian ship in the capital of Espírito Santo led to the creation of the National Italian Immigrant Day. The date was created through a bill in the Senate in 2008.
The ship La Sofia left Porto Genova on January 3, 1874, bringing the leader of this expedition to Brazil, Pietro Tabacchi, in addition to farmers, a chaplain and the assistant Pietro Casagrande.
Pietro Tabacchi was an Italian from the region of Trento, who had already come to Brazil in 1851 and acquired a farm, named Nova Trento, in the city of Santa Cruz.
In 1974 it was authorized by the government of Espírito Santo to bring Italian immigrants to work on their land.
Altogether, this expedition brought 386 immigrants from the region of Italian Tyrol.
First Italian immigrants
Although February 21st is a milestone for Italian immigration, Italians began to arrive in Brazil earlier. Between 1860 and 1920, 7 million Italians landed in the country.
Until the middle of the 19th century, there were great sociocultural differences on the Italian Peninsula.
O unification process it lasted 20 years and resulted in changes in field work.
Associated with industrial development, these changes led to hunger and unemployment for thousands of people. peasants and artisans.
In this way, many peasants accepted the Brazilian government's invitation to work in the crops of the country, mainly in the regions southeast and south.
These Italians were mostly from the Veneto region, northern Italy.
Although the southern region of Brazil received the first Italians, the southeast received the largest number of immigrants from Italy.
This is due to the expansion of coffee farms No. State of Sao Paulo: .
Phenomenon of Italian immigration
A Italian diaspora It was the largest spontaneous migratory movement in history.
Between 1880 and 1976Near 13 million of Italians went to live in other countries.
For Italian government, emigration was positive, as emigrants sent money to relatives who remained in the country.
Brazil currently has the largest Italian population outside of Italy.
According to Italian Embassy in Brazil, approximately 27 million descendants of Italians reside in the country.
They are distributed mainly across the southeast and south of Brazil – almost 15% of the total Brazilian population.
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