Il controllo delle coscienze nel Nuovo Mondo: missionari e anarchici alla conquista degli emigranti italiani nel Brasile della Republica Velha

Abstract

The action of “control of consciences” of Italian migrants in Brazil by the workers' movement and the Italian clergy began in the 80s of the twentieth century, with the great transoceanic migratory wave, and ended in 1919, the year that symbolically closed the experience of the colony of anarchist immigrants in Brazil, and therefore also its relations with the Italian clergy. These are two different approaches in eternal conflict in the common attempt to attract migrants each to their own cause. The relationship created between these two conflicting ideal universes constituted the socio-political space on which the new Brazilian citizen was formed. This essay tries to explore the dynamics of this conflict.