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Total population | |
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350,000 [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Brazil:
Mainly
Southeastern Brazil Center-Western Brazil · border regions and some metropolises along Northern Brazil | |
Languages | |
Bolivian Spanish ·
Portuguese Minority: Guaraní · Aymará · possibly other Amerindian languages as Quechua | |
Religion | |
Mostly
Roman Catholicism and Folk religions. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bolivians other Brazilian, Spanish, Hispanic and Hispanophone people |
Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil have begun to develop an agreement to regularize the situation of several thousand undocumented Bolivian immigrants in Brazil. [2] According to estimates by the Ministry's of Latin American immigrants and the National Association of Immigrants from Brazil more than 200,000 Bolivians are working illegally in São Paulo. [3] [4]
Nowadays, the Bolivians constitute the biggest group of foreigners living in the country, with an estimated 350,000 Bolivian nationals currently living in Brazil. [5]
Bolivians started coming to Brazil in small numbers during the 1950s, with current levels of immigration beginning in the 1980s. The numbers vary according to the source, but it is a fact that the information given by the media is very different from academic and official estimates. [6]
About 40% of Bolivians go to the city of São Paulo, around 10% of Bolivians go to the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the border cities of Corumbá ( Mato Grosso do Sul) and Guajará-Mirim ( Rondônia) receive about 5% of the total each. [7] Ethnographic reports have found that Bolivians in Corumbá are regularly subject to racial discrimination. [8]