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Immigration
| Toward Congressional Representation for Brazilians Abroad |
Brazilians in the U.S. and Massachusetts:
A Demographic and Economic Profile
by Alvaro Lima and Eduardo Siqueira
"The 2000 U.S. Census counted 212,636 Brazilian-
born people living in the United States, representing
0.7% of the country’s entire foreign-born population
of 31 million. Florida is the most popular destination
for Brazilians coming to the U.S., accounting for 22%
of the total Brazilian population in this country. It is
followed by Massachusetts (17%), California (11%),
New York (10%), and New Jersey (10%). Collectively,
these five states account for 70% of the total
population of Brazilians who showed up in the 2000 U.
S. Census.. Read more
Congressional Representation for Brazilians Abroad
The Senate of Brazil is debating an amendment to the nation’s Constitution to
approve the creation of at least four congressmen positions to represent the
country’s workers who live abroad in the US, Japan, Europe, and the rest of the
world.
Fifty-nine senators voted in favor of the amendment, authored in 2005 by Senator
Cristovam Buarque of Brasilia, during a session of the Senate on April 2, 2009.
The Senate of Brazil is debating an amendment to the nation’s Constitution to
approve the creation of at least four congressmen positions to represent the
country’s workers who live abroad in the US, Japan, Europe, and the rest of the
world.
Fifty-nine senators voted in favor of the amendment, authored in 2005 by Senator
Cristovam Buarque of Brasilia, during a session of the Senate on April 2, 2009.
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Recommended Reading:
Women’s Stories: Brazilian Immigrant
Women as “Transnational” Migrants
by Judith McDonnell
and Cileine de Lourenço
For a background on Brazilian Immigration read
Eduardo L. G. Rios-Neto's
Managing Migration: The Brazilian Case
Women’s Stories: Brazilian Immigrant
Women as “Transnational” Migrants
by Judith McDonnell
and Cileine de Lourenço
For a background on Brazilian Immigration read
Eduardo L. G. Rios-Neto's
Managing Migration: The Brazilian Case
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How migration transformed
Martha’s Vineyard
By Daniela Gerson and published in the Financial Times
One December morning in 1986, a Brazilian immigrant named Lyndon Johnson
Pereira strode down the ferry dock of Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of
Cape Cod in Massachusetts. A job tip had lured the young man with shaggy
brown hair and blue Converse sneakers to leave Boston, where he had been
working as a dishwasher for a little over a year. But as he took in the
deserted streets and weather-beaten buildings, he worried he had made a
mistake. “The island appeared poor, badly maintained,” a now middle-aged
Pereira recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘What am I going to do here?’”
Read more.
Martha’s Vineyard
By Daniela Gerson and published in the Financial Times
One December morning in 1986, a Brazilian immigrant named Lyndon Johnson
Pereira strode down the ferry dock of Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of
Cape Cod in Massachusetts. A job tip had lured the young man with shaggy
brown hair and blue Converse sneakers to leave Boston, where he had been
working as a dishwasher for a little over a year. But as he took in the
deserted streets and weather-beaten buildings, he worried he had made a
mistake. “The island appeared poor, badly maintained,” a now middle-aged
Pereira recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘What am I going to do here?’”
Read more.
| Click here for information about the II Conference of Brazilian Communities Abroad, "Brazilians in the World." |
For more information about the Brazilian
government's policies and programs for
Brazilians residing in the U.S. and abroad contact:
Divisão das Comunidades Brasileiras no Exterior
Departamento Consular e de Brasileiros no Exterior
Subsecretaria-Geral das Comunidades Brasileiras no
Exterior
Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco H, Anexo I, Térreo
Brasília, D.F. 70170-900
E-mail: brasileirosnomundo@mre.gov.br
government's policies and programs for
Brazilians residing in the U.S. and abroad contact:
Divisão das Comunidades Brasileiras no Exterior
Departamento Consular e de Brasileiros no Exterior
Subsecretaria-Geral das Comunidades Brasileiras no
Exterior
Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco H, Anexo I, Térreo
Brasília, D.F. 70170-900
E-mail: brasileirosnomundo@mre.gov.br