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Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign persons to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese, or with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves. Throughout its history, Brazil has always been a recipient of immigrants, but this began to gain importance in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century when the country received massive immigration from Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, which left lasting marks on demography, culture, language and the economy of Brazil. In general, it is considered that people who entered Brazil until 1822, the year of independence, were colonizers. Since then, those who entered the independent nation were immigrants. Before 1870, the number of immigrants rarely exceeded two or three thousand people a year. Immigration increased pressure from the first end of the international slave trade to Brazil, after the expansion of the economy, especially in the period of large coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo. Immigration has been a very important demographic factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, with all its attending factors and consequences in culture, economy, education, racial issues, etc. Brazil has received one of the largest numbers of immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, along with the United States, Argentina and Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Brasil - Os migrantes de hoje )〕 Counting from 1872 (year of the first census) by the year 2000, Brazil received about 6 million immigrants. ==Brief history== Maria Stella Ferreira Levy〔() Maria Stella Ferreira Levy. O papel da migração internacional na evolução da população brasileira (1872 a 1972) p. 52.〕 suggests the following periodisation of the process of immigration to Brazil: *1. 1820-1876: small number of immigrants (about 6,000 per year), predominance of Portuguese (45.73%), with significant numbers of Germans (12.97%); *2. 1877-1903: large number of immigrants (about 71,000 per year), predominance of Italians (58.49%); *3. 1904-1930: large number of immigrants (about 79,000 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (36.97%); *4. 1931-1963: declining number of immigrants (about 33,500 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (38.45%). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Immigration to Brazil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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