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migration of people of European descent and making it difficult for people of African descent to enter the country. This same stance was imposed on Asians. These policies differed sharply from policies in the United States that enforced segregation and racial inequality. Brazil's policies were rooted in its history of interracial blending and relationships between the native people of Brazil, Europeans, and Africans.
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In the period between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Brazilian immigration policy became restrictive of migration by populations from Africa in an effort to shift the population's racial demographic from being diverse to a white majority one. These policies worked by encouraging
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published a report on the increasing immigration of people from the African continent to countries in Latin America. This report explains this trend in immigration as being due to the stricter border controls and immigration policies by countries across Europe. This report also cites rises in
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Brazil is cited as having the largest black population of any country outside of Africa. Brazil's and most of Latin America's friendly immigration policies attract migration from people from the African countries who seek to be integrated into society.
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During the latter half of the 2010s and the early 2020s, a transit migration phenomenon from Africa to Latin America has been documented, with the intent of reaching the
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acquisition, however, has been eased for these immigrants due to the presence of pre-existing Black diaspora populations in such countries as
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Movilidades extracontinentales. Personas de origen africano y asiático en tránsito por la frontera sur de México
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xenophobic sentiment across Europe as a reason for increased migration of African immigrants from Africa to
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After the end of both wars, most migration across the Atlantic to Latin America was from
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in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. The process of settlement and
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instability, and a trend toward the tightening of border security in the
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