Pelos laços do matrimônio: Casamento, identidade e sociabilidade de imigrantes portugueses na comunidade de Santa Isabel na cidade de Petrópolis (1933-1967)

Abstract

The dissertation seeks to understand the sociability and identity networks developed by Portuguese immigrants through the marriages that gave rise to Santa Isabel and its permanence from 1933 onwards. The time frame covers the period from 1933 to 1967, corresponding to the years of greatest occupation of the city. Santa Isabel region due to Portuguese immigration, encouraging marriages between these residents. In the course of our work we will address how the community's marriages occurred, the existence of endogamous exchanges and the like, but also the social reality of origin of the Portuguese who arrived in Petrópolis and what similar characteristics of the parishes were reestablished in Brazil. We will thus highlight the political, social, cultural and economic aspects that surrounded the Portuguese subjects of Santa Isabel and gave rise to marriages and new families in the community as the basis for its growth and preservation even after the end of the immigrant waves.