Today it is estimated at 4,4 million people the descendants of European immigration in Peru, that is to say 15% of the total population, of which only 5% is exclusively from Spaniards. From 1830 to 1850, the first rulers of Peru multiplied the invitations to the immigration European, specifically to populate and administer the great Amazonian regions for which they do not have enough manpower.
As of 1845, the Peruvian government adopts a law that opens access to property for foreigners, prohibited in the Constitution of 1839. The government of the general Ramon Castilla decrees the abolition of slavery in 1854 and favors European immigration to the detriment of low-skilled labor from Asia. But from 1850 to 1880, the explosion of commerce made the attraction of foreign workers more urgent.
Despite all the efforts of the gobierno Peruvian By attracting European workers, only approximately 150.000 settled in Peru in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
Spanish immigration
The time of the colonization sees the birth of the important community of Spaniards in Peru, with the massive dispatch of conquerors and soldiers to defeat the Inca Empire and establish a vicerrEino at the orders of the Kingdom of Spain. They are quickly joined by contingents of officials and settlers to administer and populate this new territory under Spanish rule.
The 1791 census counts 136.000 Spaniards, that is, 12% of the total population of Peru. East core Spanish it is later reinforced by refugees from the war in Spain in the 1930s. Today it is considered that 20% of Peruvians have blood Spanish, International, usually mestizo with the indigenous population or other immigrants. There is no doubt that it is a colony with a certain moral weight within the country.