The 1934 Constitution set out labor protections and capped immigration from each country at two percent of nationals of that country who had settled in Brazil over the previous fifty years. It also framed immigration in terms of “ethnic integration.” The quota system made national origin a constitutional instrument for managing population and labor. A decolonial reading situates this policy within racialized debates about national identity and the aftermath of slavery.
Log in om dit verhaal leuk te vinden of te bookmarken.
🔖 Bookmarken
Organisaties in dit Evenement
Nog geen afbeeldingen of video's voor deze gebeurtenis.
Gerelateerde evenementen
What did the 1934 Constitution do regarding immigration?
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
Article 121 §6 included country-based quotas and language about ethnic integration.
The 1934 Constitution ended country-based immigration quotas.
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
Article 121 §6 included annual quotas and ethnic-integration language.