Uruguayan Brazilians

Ethnic group

Uruguayan Brazilian
Uruguaio-brasileiro  * Uruguayo-brasileñoTotal population

50,512 Uruguayan citizens[1]
Regions with significant populations
Brazil: Mainly Southern * Southeastern Brazil
Languages
Spanish * Portuguese
Religion
Majority of Roman Catholicism
some Protestantism * Others
Related ethnic groups
Other Brazilian and Uruguayan people

Other Hispanic Brazilians such as Argentine, Spanish, Paraguayan and Bolivian Brazilians
White Brazilians in general

Uruguayan Brazilian (Portuguese: Uruguaio-brasileiro, Spanish: Uruguayo-brasileño, Rioplatense Spanish: Uruguayo-brasilero) is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Uruguayan ancestry, or a Uruguayan-born person residing in Brazil.

## History

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Before the 1960s, the economy of Uruguay provided its citizens with middle-class affluence, and emigration was limited. With a comfortable standard of living, adequate employment opportunities, a favorable social welfare and health insurance system, and democratic freedoms, the need to leave was not pressing. On the whole, even the poorest of the Uruguayans enjoyed certain benefits that kept them satisfied enough to stay in their own country. For those who left the cultural and recreational opportunities of the cities, where 85 percent of all Uruguayans lived, the proposition of going to neighboring countries such as Argentina, with its familiar language and proximity to the home country, was more appealing than moving to Southern Brazil. Those who pursued business or educational opportunities in the Brazil and elsewhere, often returned home, never forsaking their Uruguayan citizenship.

Two factors changed the complacency of Uruguayans. First, there were economic and political problems in Uruguay after World War II, particularly money and employment crisis during the 1960s and 1970s. Second, an oppressive military regime took control of the government. Now, there were motivating factors to leave Uruguay, and the people leaving Uruguay in vast numbers were the ones that the country could least afford to lose—well-educated professionals and the young. This, too, marked the beginning of the social security crisis. As the aging population retired, and young people left the country, the burden on the country's financial resources grew. Of Uruguay immigrants from 1963 to 1975, 17.7 percent of them were aged 14 years or younger, 68 percent of them were between the ages of 15 and 39, and only 14.3 percent were over 40 years old. The continued employment problems of the late 1980s represented yet another impetus for the youth of Uruguay to seek employment and new lives elsewhere. Some of them went to the United States, but the largest population of Uruguayan emigrants continued to reside in Argentina and Brazil.

Modern estimates put the figure of Uruguayans in Brazil at about 55,000.[2]

There are many thousands of Uruguayan citizens who also have Brazilian citizenship and vote in elections in both countries.[3]

## Notable people

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* César Charlone, cinematographer
* Juan Figer, football agent
* Emílio Garrastazu Médici, President of Brazil, was son of a Uruguayan-born woman
* Giorgian de Arrascaeta, footballer

## See also

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* Brazil–Uruguay relations
* Emigration from Uruguay
* White Brazilian

## References

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1. ^ Estrangeiros por nacionalidade - IBGE 2022
2. ^ "Where did Uruguayans go?" (in Spanish). El Observador. 13 August 2017.
3. ^ "Double plate": Uruguayans with Bolsonaro (in Spanish)

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Americas|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Cuba
* Ecuador
* Mexico
* Paraguay
* United States
* Venezuela

Europe|

* France
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Spain
* Sweden

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* Israel

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Ancestry and ethnicity in Brazil

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* Brazilians
* Indigenous peoples
* Mixed-race or mestiços
* ainokos
* pardos
* caboclos
* mamelucos
* Amazonian Jews
* cafuzos
* juçaras
* caiçaras
* mulatos
* sararás

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Africa|

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* Black
* quilombolas
* Kalunga

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West Africa

* Nigerian

Central Africa

* Angolan
* Congolese

Americas|

| North America|

* American (United States)

* Americana
* Confederados
* New Texas
* Santa Bárbara d'Oeste

* Canadian
* Mexican

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Caribbean|

* Barbadian
* Cuban
* Haitian
* Jamaican

Central America|

* Costa Rican
* Guatemalan
* Honduran
* Nicaraguan
* Panamanian
* Salvadoran

South America|

* Argentine
* Bolivian
* Chilean
* Colombian
* Ecuadorian
* Guyanese
* Paraguayan
* Peruvian
* Surinamese
* Uruguayan
* Venezuelan

Asia|

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* Yellow (East Asian)

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By country
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| Eastern|

* Chinese
* Filipino
* Indonesian
* Japanese
* in São Paulo
* Korean
* Malaysian
* Thai
* Vietnamese

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Southern|

* Bangladeshi
* East Indians
* Pakistani
* Romani

Central|

* Afghan

Western|

* Armenian
* Arab
* Iraqi
* Lebanese
* Palestinian
* Syrian
* Iranian
* Jewish
* Turkish

Europe|

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* White

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| Central|

* Austrian
* Czech
* German
* Hungarian
* Polish
* Swiss

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Eastern|

* Belarusian
* Russian
* Ukrainian

Northern|

* Estonian
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Scandinavian

Southern|

* Bulgarian
* Croatian
* Greek
* Italian
* Macedonian
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Spanish

Western|

* Belgian
* British (English and Scottish)
* Dutch
* French
* Irish
* Luxembourgian

Related topics|

* Demographics of Brazil
* Colonization
* Slave trade
* Immigration
* from Europe
* Emigration
* Racism

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