Syrian and Lebanese in Western São Paulo

The article seeks to explore the conditions and distinctive characteristics of the socioeconomic insertion of Syrians and Lebanese in the interior of São Paulo between the 1880s and 1950s. From the difficult beginning as peddlers with a distant culture, Syrians and Lebanese managed to establish them...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Truzzi, Oswaldo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2019
País:Brasil
Recursos:Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais (ABEP)
Repositório:Revista brasileira de estudos de população (Online)
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.rebep.org.br:article/1373
Acesso em linha:https://rebep.org.br/revista/article/view/1373
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Syrian and Lebanese
Western São Paulo
Social and economic mobility
Integration
Identity
Ethnic leadership
Sirios y libaneses
Oeste de São Paulo
Movilidad socioeconómica
Integración
Identidad
Liderazgo étnico
sírios e libaneses
oeste paulista
mobilidade socioeconômica
integração
identidade
lideranças étnicas
Descrição
Resumo:The article seeks to explore the conditions and distinctive characteristics of the socioeconomic insertion of Syrians and Lebanese in the interior of São Paulo between the 1880s and 1950s. From the difficult beginning as peddlers with a distant culture, Syrians and Lebanese managed to establish themselves as merchants, seizing the opportunities that their networks (of relatives and of countrymen) and the expanding coffee economy offered, establishing themselves mainly in the sectors of clothing, linen and fabrics, cattle and cereals. Taking as main source a series of works in which the Syrian and Lebanese immigrants are portrayed in the interior, the article also indicates the main regions of west of São Paulo where the group mainly concentrated, and discusses trajectories which illustrate some of the possibilities of mobility, formation of leadership, the way religious practices have been transformed and the marked mobility - as doctors and politicians - achieved by strata of the first generation born in Brazil.