A imigração no Brasil na passagem do século XIX para o XX entre o pensamento social e o debate político

Abstract

This master's dissertation seeks to investigate and sociologically analyze the theoretical and political orientations that two of the most significant figures in the intellectual community of the then emerging Brazilian republic between 1891 and 1920 – Silvio Romero and Manoel Bomfim – demonstrated regarding the immigration issue and its repercussions on the debate on Brazilian immigration policy within the federal legislature, amid the theories, at the time considered scientific, of racism, which erupted more intensely at this time, in the midst of the conjuncture of intellectual effervescence that was taking place at this time from the socio-historical prism, and their dialogue with the parliamentary debates that took place in the Brazilian National Congress. To this end, we will make extensive use of documentary and bibliographical sources, in a study of heuristic interpretation and concatenation of the spheres of the political field and the intellectual field, originating from Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theorizing, to understand the relationships through which these distinct fields of sociological action interacted with each other.