Portuguese community in São Paulo - years 2010

Abstract

This study deals with Portuguese immigrants, their associations andworks in the city of São Paulo and focuses on the present century. It concernsthe insertion process in the country of shelter and the question of identity, andit is oriented by the concepts of migration, identity and insertion, considered inits two poles – integration and preservation of the roots. Besides the bibliography,it used varied data sources, such as: written sources, especially the ones that wereobtained from the community, oral sources, as life reports and testimoniescollected through the methodology of Oral History, radio broadcasting programs,besides photos. As the community is scattered and the Portuguese are not easyto be identified due to the similarity of physiognomic traits and surnames, andthe language being the same, the option for this study was to take the associativemovement and the institutions of the community as basis. The text shows theeffort of the community to preserve the Portuguese roots and the ambiguitythat marks the identity of the Portuguese community in Brazil.