26 March – The Prinetti Decree is approved by the Italian General Commissariat of Emigration suspending emigration to Brazil of all Italians not paying their own passage. The decree was named after the then Italian foreign affairs minister, Giulio Prinetti, and approved based on a report denouncing the terrible living conditions experienced by Italian immigrants who had become virtual serfs on the coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo, with no medical care, no school for their children, small houses, no minimum hygiene conditions, and physical violence, even the use of whips.[3][4]
↑ Maria Eugenia Bertarelli (2010), NERY, Silvério José(PDF) (in Portuguese), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, retrieved 2016-07-10
↑ (in Portuguese) Trento (1989), Do outro lado do Atlântico, pp. 52-53
↑ Cometti, Elizabeth (December 1958). "Trends in Italian Emigration". The Western Political Quarterly. 11 (4): 820–834. doi:10.2307/443655. JSTOR443655.
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