Estratégias de organização da sociedade civil: as associações de imigrantes portugueses na corte (1860 – 1882)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study Portuguese immigrants’ charitable associations organized in Rio de Janeiro city, which had their by-laws sent to the Conselho de Estado between the years of 1860 and 1882. By means of documentation deposed in the Arquivo Nacional, this paper analyzes the customers, the organization and the objective of such companies, here understood as strategies of organization of civil society. In the middle of a transformation scenery, such associations stood as spaces for the practice of mutual help, charity and sociability. The research deals also with the relation between those institutions and the Brazilian society, through the action of a state body responsible for the evaluation of the “public utility” of those.