CHINESES NO RIO DE JANEIRO: O século XX e a migração em massa

Abstract

From 1850, the immigration has come to play a central role in Brazilian history as well as the year 1812, a largely unknown fact, has recorded the first free work experience: the import of Chinese people to work in the tea plantations. Since then, the immigration of these populations had been growing and it has become the main foreign contingent in Brazil throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Complementing a previous article about the history of Chinese immigration until the nineteenth century, which has published in 2011, this paper aims to discuss the socially created images and ethnic prejudices which had felt (and they have still remain) on these “new Brazilian people".