Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan 'yan shekaru bayan samun' yancin kai daga Portugal a 1822, mutanen Fotigal za su fara zuwa Brazil a matsayin baƙi, kuma yawan mutanen Fotigal a Brazil a zahiri ya karu. Yawancin su manoma ne daga yankunan karkara na Fotigal. Yawancinsu sun zauna a birane, musamman a São Paulo da Rio de Janeiro, suna aiki a matsayin ƙananan 'yan kasuwa, masu shaguna, masu ɗaukan kaya, masu gyaran takalma, da kuma direbobi. Ƙananan mutane sun zama masu haƙa kwal, masu aikin madara, da kuma ƙananan manoma a waje da birane. Baƙi 'yan Portugal sun ba da aikin haƙa Kogin Tietê. Tashin hankali a Fotigal bayan Juyin Juya Halin 1910
da kuma kafa Jamhuriyar Portuguese ta Farko ta haifar da ƙaura na ɗan lokaci na Fotigal zuwa Brazil. Wannan rukunin baƙi an san su da mashaya, gidajen cin abinci, gidajen burodi, da ƙananan masana'antu. Fitowar Yaƙin Duniya na I da kuma faduwar kasuwar hannayen jari a shekara ta 1929 ya rage ikon Fotigal na tafiya zuwa Brazil.