Abstract
The article focuses on the relationship between schooling demands and state policies during the First Republic. Set in the city of Belo Horizonte, materialization of the republican project of urban planning, it seeks to analyse the access to education of the different populations, considering their occupation of the territory. Using as analytical reference the dialogue between history, geography and urban planning, it focuses on the dynamic between the demands for schooling from the immigrant population inhabitant of agricultural colonies and state actions in the period between its creation in 1897 and incorporation to the suburban area in 1912. The segregationist policy of territorial occupation, defined according to the social and ethnic-racial condition of the city's population imposed conditions of unequal access to school. Even them, it is possible to identify investment and mobilization from the inhabitants of the colonies in their instruction
Key-words:
schooling; city; territorialization; immigration