Editing Azores (section)

===Emigration===
Since the 17th century, many Azoreans have emigrated, mainly to Brazil, Uruguay, the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.csustan.edu/bsantos/azores.html |title=Azores Islands |publisher=Library.csustan.edu |date=17 January 1997 |access-date=5 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512001602/https://www.library.csustan.edu/bsantos/azores.html |archive-date=12 May 2008}}</ref> [[Rhode Island]] and southeastern [[Massachusetts]] are the primary destination for Azorean emigrants.<ref>{{cite web |author=da Silva, Lurdes C. 22 August 2008 |url=http://www.ojornal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20087125&BRD=2677&PAG=461&dept_id=543384&rfi=6 |title=Mass.- Azores links inked |publisher=O Jornal |date=22 August 2008 |access-date=5 May 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> From 1921 to 1977, about 250,000 Azoreans immigrated to Rhode Island and Massachusetts.<ref>[http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/immigr.html "Azorean Immigration into the United States"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203140318/http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/immigr.html |date=3 February 2009}}. Library.csustan.edu.</ref> Northern [[California]] was the final destination for many of the Massachusetts immigrants who then moved on to the [[San Joaquin Valley]], especially the city of [[Turlock, California|Turlock]]. In the late 19th century many Azoreans [[Portuguese immigration to Hawaii|immigrated to the Hawaiian islands]].<ref name="diaspora" /> The [[tuna]] fishing industry drew a significant number of Azoreans to the [[Point Loma, San Diego|Point Loma]] neighborhood of [[San Diego]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Orbach |first=Michael K. |title=Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H16MRRFQMW8C&pg=PA7 |year=1977 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-03348-1 |page=7 |access-date=22 November 2015 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033943/https://books.google.com/books?id=H16MRRFQMW8C&pg=PA7 |url-status=live }}</ref> During the [[Great Recession]] of the early 21st century, Portugal was in a recession from 2011 until 2013, which resulted in high levels of unemployment across the mainland as well as the Azores.<ref>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Portugal|access-date=25 December 2019 |year=2019}}</ref> The Great Recession led to an increase of emigration from the Azores.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Minder |first=Raphael |date=4 June 2015 |title=Azorean Diaspora Can't Resist the Powerful Pull of Home |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/europe/azores-diaspora-holy-christ-of-miracles.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/europe/azores-diaspora-holy-christ-of-miracles.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |access-date=25 December 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[Florianópolis]] and [[Porto Alegre]] in the [[South Region, Brazil|Southern Region]] of Brazil were founded by Azoreans, who accounted for over half of [[Rio Grande do Sul]] and [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]]'s populations in the late 18th century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.terrabrasileira.net/folclore/regioes/7tipos/acores.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231170219/http://www.terrabrasileira.net/folclore/regioes/7tipos/acores.html |url-status=usurped |title=Imigrantes: Açorianos|archive-date=31 December 2007}}</ref> As late as 1960, mass immigration currents were registered to Brazil, and many were from the Azores.<ref name="diaspora">Russell King, John Connell (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8asL17kRGToC&pg=PA61 Small worlds, global lives: islands and migration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033931/https://books.google.com/books?id=8asL17kRGToC&pg=PA61 |date=25 March 2019 }}''. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 61–65. {{ISBN|1-85567-548-X}}</ref>