Inmigrantes Indeseables: españoles expulsados de Río de Janeiro, 1907-1930

Abstract

This paper aims to expose the situation of several Spanish immigrants settled in Rio de Janeiro during 20th century first-third, who were affected by Lei Gordo (1907), which ruled misfit foreigners’ expulsion from Brazil. Our aim is twofold: on the one hand, to examine how some social exclusion factors that immigrants faced, specially living and labour conditions, influenced this process; and, on the other, to analyze who this indesejáveis were, and how they came to this categorization.