Migração Portuguesa para São Paulo na segunda metade do século XIX

um estudo de caso

Abstract

The analysis of a unique migratory experience between Portugal (Beira
/ Lousã County) and the province of São Paulo (Espírito Santo do Pinhal
region) presents some considerations about the demographic and
social characteristics of the contingent of Lousanenses , who went to
the Colonial Nucleus of Nova Lousã (founded in 1867).
Based on the analysis of demographic data collected through the use of
parish registers (baptism and marriage) from Vila da Lousã and Nova
Lousã, crossed with different sources, it was intended to compare the
specific profile of the population that emigrated to the colony in the
interior of São Paulo (between the 1860s and 1880s), with the one that
remained in the native land. We try to emphasize different behaviors of
the population that immigrated, taking into account the new environment
and the new conditions of life in the land in which these individuals
were inserted.