Language:
Portuguese
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Cadernos de Língua e Literatura Hebraica
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (2001) 183-233
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jewish refugees History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Brazil Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Although Brazil was a member of the League of Nations and publicly endorsed a policy of helping refugees from Nazism, and although the Brazilian constitution of 1934 guaranteed immigration quotas for different nationalities, the government of Getúlio Vargas bypassed the law through secret circulars and implemented severe restrictions on immigration of Jewish refugees by setting various regulations and bureaucratic obstacles. This policy was justified by antisemitic arguments, long internalized by the governing class, e.g. that a large immigration of Jews would alter the ethnic and demographic balance of the country, that the Jews practiced low trades that would ruin the Brazilian economy, that they were useless for agriculture, that they had a tendency to parasitism, that they were not able to assimilate, and that all of them were communists who would endanger Brazilian public security.
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