Notícias da diáspora. Aproximação à imprensa imigrante portuguesa nos Estados Unidos entre 1910 e 1929

Abstract

In the early 20th century, especially between 1910 and 1929, the Portuguese press in the United States reached a period of great growth and expansion, giving rise to the consolidation of an interesting information discourse in Portuguese through the production of newspapers founded by immigrants in several American states. During

this period, 52 new newspaper titles were published in Portuguese, although the ma- jority were effeminate. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques, the main

objective of this work is to analyze the role that this type of press played among the immigrants who arrived in mass in the first decades of the 20th century, helping them

to understand the functioning of American society and to integrate into its social fa- bric. This work demonstrates that this type of newspapers, carried out with great li- mitations by self-taught journalists, had a relevant role as media of information and

instruction among Portuguese immigrants.