Orfani italiani in the Juízo dos Órfãos

• Autor(a) principal: Cardozo, José Carlos da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/34359
• topic: Órfãos; Estrangeiros; Italianos; Juízo dos órfãos; História da Imigração; Orphans; Foreign; Italians; Juízo dos órfãos

Many children and teens Italians, along with their families, transposed oceanic barriers and came to Rio Grande do Sul in search of better job opportunities and living conditions. However, the events surrounding the majority of the population between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, also afflicted families of Italian immigrants, in some led to complete disarticulation with the death of their parents. So many children and adolescents immigrants or descendants also had to live with the orphans. To take care of these children, the Brazilian state owned the Juízo dos Órfãos, the institution of the Judiciary intended to assign an adult as guardian for the minor. It is the intention of this work, through Social History, presenting some of the smaller Italian and Italian-Brazilians who had their stories recorded in the Tutelage Proceedings of Porto Alegre city. Reflecting on these foreign minors and analysis to bring children and teenagers who often remain in the background studies immigration.