Argentines
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
of Portuguese descent or a Portugal-born person who resides in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. Portuguese Argentines has always been a small group in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
There are some 30,000 people of Portuguese ancestry in Argentina, of whom 14,946 hold Portuguese citizenship.
History
Portuguese immigration has been comparatively small in Argentina due to a linguistic preference for neighbouring Brazil. However, the Portuguese were the largest foreign group in the last years of the Viceroyalty. In 1850, there were sailors and petty traders from Lisbon and Porto; they were later joined by artisans, laborers, and farm workers. The Portuguese Club, in the neighborhood of Isidro Casanova, recognizes the origins of the migration of a group of families during the military dictatorship of Antonio Oliveira Salazar (1932-1974) installed as quinteros, hornero and merchants in the metropolitan area, notably in La Matanza party.
The Portuguese were after the Spanish the largest group before 1816 and continued arriving throughout the 19th century. A large proportion settled in the interior of the country, but Buenos Aires City and Province were the main places of settlement. There already were many men who arrived in Lisbon, Porto, and coastal regions of Portugal, which focused particularly on the parishes of South by deploying multiple occupations, but mainly the naval: sailors, stevedores, and porters. In the 1970s, they began organizing themselves ethnically, and community life (mutual, club, newspaper) would be more active in the following decades. To Salliqueló came an important group from a settlement of 1905.http://www.monografias.com/trabajos16/portugueses-en-argentina/portugueses-en-argentina.shtml Inmigración a la Argentina. Portugueses
Prior to 1975, Cape Verdean immigrants were registered as Portuguese immigrants from the
overseas province
Overseas province ( pt, província ultramarina) was a designation used by Portugal for its overseas possessions, located outside Europe.
History
In the early the 19th century, Portuguese overseas territories were referred to as "overseas domini ...
An important Portuguese community was established in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South Am ...
Esteban Echeverría Partido
Esteban Echeverría Partido is a partido in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, in Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of 300,959 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Monte Grande, whic ...
) and also in the West:
Isidro Casanova
Isidro Casanova is a city in La Matanza Partido, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. It borders the towns of Villa Luzuriaga, San Justo, Ciudad Evita, Rafael Castillo, Laferrere, and Ezeiza.
History
The area encompassing Isidro Casanova was in ...
,
González Catán
González Catán is a city located in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The city is the second-largest by area in the county (52 km²), and the second most-populous. The city is located near the southwestern end of the Grea ...
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La Matanza Partido
La Matanza ('The Slaughter' in Spanish) is a '' partido'' (county or department) located in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
This provincial subdivision had 1,775,272 inhabitants (at the 2010 Cen ...
Tradicionalismo y modernización. Las quintas portuguesas del partido de La Matanza (in English: Traditionalism and modernization. The Portuguese villas of La Matanza)]. Svetlitza de Nemirovsky, Universidad de Belgrano), Pontevedra, Buenos Aires Province, Pontevedra, LibertadLas huellas de los inmigrantes en una celebración portuguesa (in English: Traces of the immigrants in a Portuguese celebration) Diario Clarín and Olavarría. In addition, communities in
Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia () is a city in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill. Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important city of the San ...
,Comodoro met for two days Portuguese throughout Argentina Diario El Patagónico.Mendoza, Argentina, Mendoza Adriana Bocco y María Pannunzio, « La identidad campesina de inmigrantes portuguesas en Mendoza » en Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire (in English: "The rural identity of Portuguese immigrants Mendoza" in history and Memory of Latin America) and
Oberá
Oberá, formerly Svea, is a city in the interfluvial province of Misiones, Argentina, and the head town of the Oberá Department. It is located 96 km east of the provincial capital Posadas, on National Route 14, and about 1,150 km no ...
(where the community has a ballet called ''Corazón Luso'' - in English: Luso Heart).Olavarria Portuguese society participated in "Buenos Aires celebrates Portugal
Portuguese Clubs
Around the 1970s started based on La Matanza clubs of the foreign communities likely as a form of defense against the threat of the loss of the important elements of culture itself.
The members of the Portuguese community participated in this process of creating of an area of cultural heritage. Are 23 Portuguese clubs that exist in Argentina and Isidro Casanova, one of the most important in this country, was founded in 1978. Subsequently, the creation of another club, smaller than the previous one, took place in the city of González Catán, maintaining a constant interplay.
It could explain this rise in the Portuguese community to create clubs as a response to the threat felt by the first immigrants at the loss of their language, customs, and values and who therefore try to keep them alive in the area of the club.
It should not be forgotten that for the seventies these immigrants had Portuguese or Argentina children monolingual in Portuguese attending Argentine schools where taught them the Spanish and the parents saw and felt was lost their mother tongue. In communities such as the described each generation begins with a restrictive monolingual repertoire to the intimacy of the home and the educational institutions become bilingual and provide a wider repertoire. Bilingual subjects appear this way.http://www.monografias.com/trabajos39/actitudes-linguisticas/actitudes-linguisticas.shtml Actitudes lingüísticas de los descendientes de portugueses sobre esta lengua (Translate:
Language attitudes of the descendants of Portuguese on the language)
See also
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Argentina–Portugal relations
The current and historical relations between the Argentine Republic and the Portuguese Republic, have existed for over a century. Both nations are members of the Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
History
In 1512, Port ...
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Argentines of European descent
European Argentines belong to several communities which trace their origins to various migrations from Europe and which have contributed to the country's cultural and demographic variety.Spanish Argentine
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...