Can't read the paper, but it seems perfectly logical that Brazil would be the country that tried hardest of those six. During the last decades of the 19th century Brazil was by far the poorest - Argentina was three to four times richer.
And Brazil's aggressive promotion of immigration worked. Nowadays, Brazil's per capita income is much higher as a fraction of those countries' income (*) than what it was a century and a half ago.
It does seem a bit odd that the graph (Figure 1) implies anti-immigration policies during 1920s Brazil though, at a time when Japanese migration to the country was highest.
In peril of sounding hopelessly nerdy here but the diverse range of immigration policies is familiar to aficionados of 19th century grand strategy games like Victoria. Playing as a country in America, especially in South America, part of the standard optimal game plan is to enact policies that will boost immigration to achieve the population base to leapfrog the US and launch your nation into great power status by the late industrial age. There are guides and walkthroughs about how to maximize your immigration and everything.
I like their approach, but I also think that it is important to keep in mind that immigration policy is not the same as immigration. A government may want to encourage immigration, but an immigrant may choose to go to a different nation.
From 1830s to WW1 the USA was a huge lure due to almost free land and an abundance of factory jobs. That was really hard for other nations to compete against regardless of their policies.
Can't read the paper, but it seems perfectly logical that Brazil would be the country that tried hardest of those six. During the last decades of the 19th century Brazil was by far the poorest - Argentina was three to four times richer.
And Brazil's aggressive promotion of immigration worked. Nowadays, Brazil's per capita income is much higher as a fraction of those countries' income (*) than what it was a century and a half ago.
It does seem a bit odd that the graph (Figure 1) implies anti-immigration policies during 1920s Brazil though, at a time when Japanese migration to the country was highest.
(*) Maybe with the exception of Canada.
In peril of sounding hopelessly nerdy here but the diverse range of immigration policies is familiar to aficionados of 19th century grand strategy games like Victoria. Playing as a country in America, especially in South America, part of the standard optimal game plan is to enact policies that will boost immigration to achieve the population base to leapfrog the US and launch your nation into great power status by the late industrial age. There are guides and walkthroughs about how to maximize your immigration and everything.
I like their approach, but I also think that it is important to keep in mind that immigration policy is not the same as immigration. A government may want to encourage immigration, but an immigrant may choose to go to a different nation.
From 1830s to WW1 the USA was a huge lure due to almost free land and an abundance of factory jobs. That was really hard for other nations to compete against regardless of their policies.