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In the second half of the nineteenth century abolitionist laws such as the Law Eusebio de Queiroz which prevented slave trading, led São Paulo farmers to seek new alternatives to supply the need for manpower provision.One of these alternatives was to bring Europeans.The immigrants' hostels played an important role in the Brazilian migratory process, by being a transition place for foreign and domestic workers after their long journey from their point of origin to their destination.A point between their departure from Europe and their arrival at the inland farms, the immigrants' hostels were important to welcome them, feed them and direct them to work either on farms or at the city.Our goal was to find hostels that are not usually listed by historiography and understand to whom they were intended, how they were organized and who controlled them.Through textual and paleographical analysis of official documentation of the Empire and Province reports, of legislation, of periodicals and manuscripts from the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo and of historiography we located immigrants' hostels, of colonial settlements and internalization, which ran between 1875 and 1886.We believe that Paulistas coffee planters, key stakeholders in obtaining alternatives to slave labor, were ahead in the organization of these immigrants' hostels.To keep controlling these hostels, sometimes they created immigration associations that followed, sometimes they acted as government tenders.We also consider that the immigrants' hostels, regardless their location, maintained the continuity of services, offering three meals a day for up to eight days, and providing medical and funeral assistance when needed.Besides the immigrants' hostel, there were others with different functions, such as those that sheltered immigrants who were destined for the colonial settlements and who were sent to São Paulo, interned, in order to keep them away from the threats of contracting diseases such as yellow fever

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