Italian immigration to Costa Rica

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Rita Bariatti

Abstract

The history of the colonization of St. Vito of Java is first and foremost a special and very human story, a story of intrepid men and women, who managed to defeat an inhospit nature and triumphed with the spirit and the snout of the pioneers.


This colonizing enterprise, in the context of Italian emigration to Costa Rica, is detached from the other types of emigration and has new and its own characteristics that differentiate it. That as to: 1) was an emigration planned by a private company; (2) the employment category of "colon" among Italians residing in Costa Rica was affirmed; (3) Italians came from several Italian regions and were located in a common place with similar objectives; 4) the colony was located in an isolated place in the south of the country and 5) was the first foreign colonization to achieve success on Costa Rican soil.

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BariattiR. (2021). Italian immigration to Costa Rica. Acta Académica, 34(Mayo), 182-210. Retrieved from http://201.196.25.14/index.php/actas/article/view/1186
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Acta Histórica

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