Bolivians in Brazil

{{about|Brazilian people of Bolivian descent|Bolivian people of Brazilian descent|Brazilian Bolivians}}

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| group = Bolivians in Brazil
Boliviano Brasileiros
Bolivianos en Brasil

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| caption = Notable Bolivians in Brazil:

| population = 350,000 {{cite web |url=https://www.uol/noticias/especiais/imigrantes-brasil-venezuelanos-refugiados-media-mundial.htm#imagem-3 |title=O Brasil tem pouco imigrante|accessdate=2019-02-17}}

| popplace = Brazil:

Mainly Southeastern Brazil
Center-Western Brazil {{·}} border regions and some metropolises along Northern Brazil

| langs = Bolivian Spanish {{·}} Portuguese
Minority: Guaraní {{·}} Aymará {{·}} possibly other Amerindian languages as Quechua

| rels = Mostly Roman Catholicism
and Folk religions.

| related = Bolivians
other Brazilian, Spanish, Hispanic and Hispanophone people

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Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil have begun to develop an agreement to regularize the situation of several thousand undocumented Bolivian immigrants in Brazil.[http://www.elreloj.com/article.php?id=18609 El Reloj.(Spanish)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202223140/http://www.elreloj.com/article.php?id=18609 |date=December 2, 2010 }} According to estimates by the Ministry's of Latin American immigrants and the National Association of Immigrants from Brazil more than 200,000 Bolivians are working illegally in São Paulo.[http://www.etni-cidade.net/bolivianos_saude.htm Bolivianos são o grupo mais atingido pela tuberculose em São Paulo.Agência Brasil. (Portuguese)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830072536/http://www.etni-cidade.net/bolivianos_saude.htm |date=2009-08-30 }}[http://www.generaccion.com/usuarios/actualidad/articulos/?codarticulocliente=304 Mas de 200.00 Bolivianos trabajan en Sao Paulo (Spanish).] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206132110/http://www.generaccion.com/usuarios/actualidad/articulos/?codarticulocliente=304 |date=December 6, 2008 }}

Nowadays, the Bolivians constitute the biggest group of foreigners living in the country, with an estimated 350,000 Bolivian nationals currently living in Brazil.{{cite web |url=https://www.uol/noticias/especiais/imigrantes-brasil-venezuelanos-refugiados-media-mundial.htm#imagem-3 |title=O Brasil tem pouco imigrante|accessdate=2019-02-17}}

History

Bolivians started coming to Brazil in small numbers during the 1950s, with current levels of immigration beginning in the 1980s. The numbers vary according to the source, but it is a fact that the information given by the media is very different from academic and official estimates.{{Cite journal|last1=Magalhães|first1=Giovanna Modé|last2=Schilling|first2=Flávia|date=2012|title=Imigrantes da Bolívia na escola em São Paulo: fronteiras do direito à educação|journal=Pro-Posições|language=pt|volume=23|issue=1|pages=43–64|doi=10.1590/S0103-73072012000100004|issn=0103-7307|doi-access=free}}

Demographics

About 40% of Bolivians go to the city of São Paulo, around 10% of Bolivians go to the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the border cities of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul) and Guajará-Mirim (Rondônia) receive about 5% of the total each.[http://www2.mte.gov.br/trab_estrang/perfil_migratorio_2009.pdf Perfil migratorio] mte.gov.br {{dead link|date=December 2023}} Ethnographic reports have found that Bolivians in Corumbá are regularly subject to racial discrimination.{{Cite journal|last=da Costa|first=Gustavo Villela Lima|date=April 2015|title=Os Bolivianos Em Corumbá-MS: Conflitos E Relações De Poder Na Fronteira|journal=Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul|volume=21|pages=35–63|doi=10.1590/0104-93132015v21n1p035|doi-access=free}}

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Notable Bolivian Brazilians

References

Category:Ethnic groups in Brazil

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