Citizens, Immigrants and Foreigners: Inclusion and Exclusion Processes (1909-1945)

Abstract

This historical research of explanatory type, developed using the historical method,aims to explain, through the analysis of the immigration policy of the Venezuelan state under the influence of positivist ideas, from 1909-1945, the processes of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants and foreigners in relation to citizenship practices. It is justified by the need to generate theoretical and historical contributions that lead to understanding the politics of the Venezuelan State and its impact on gomecist society time, a traditionally agricultural society, impacted by the changes brought about with the beginnings of the oil activity. Changes that will facilitate communications, the emergence of new social and cultural paradigms, massive mobilization of population internally and externally, material and infrastructural development and the transition to modernity, setting new own identity codes of the oil culture.