EVENT INFORMATION

4
Mei
1938

A decree-law further regulates admission of foreign nationals

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📅 4 Mei 1938 📍 Brazil

Decree-Law 406 reorganized rules for foreign entry and residence, including the operation of national immigration quotas and requirements for visas. It extended a restrictive framework that had been developing since the early Republic. These migration rules shaped the labor market but did not alone determine Black Brazilians’ employment; discrimination and unequal access to land, schooling, and professions also mattered.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Foreign nationals

immigration officials

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federal government

immigration authorities