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Abstract

Colonization in Southern Brazil and the immigrant family. In this article, the immigration of Europeans in the 19th Century was studied, focused upon the idea that it became a reaction of the Brazilian élite to the impasse generated by the end of slavery one of the indicators that marked the rupture of the Colonial structures. On the other hand, the installation of immigrants in 19th Century Brazil marked the birth of what we can call immigrant culture. The considerations developed in this study try to situate the emergence of such a culture, analysing the descendants of the Europeans from the standpoint of historical demography as well as of cultural contacts. The analyses that follow were based upon data from the reconstitution of families of European immigrants and their descendants, this being the most common methodology in retrospective demography studies. The comparison between demographic standards and specific cultural elements of the immigrants made it possible to encompass sociability forms that allowed the drawing up of a theory of the immigrant family. Therefore, the work focuses on the wider topic of population studies or, what is more pertinent to us, on the history of population.