Brazilian Immigration to North America

Goza, Franklin

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“…Significant migration from Brazil to the US is relatively recent. Goza (1994) shows that Brazilian immigration to the US was relatively minor prior to the 1980s (with only slightly more than 50,000 Brazilian‐born individuals in the US at the time of the 1980 US Census). Many of these migrants arrived in the late 1960s and 1970s, after the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act opened the doors to migrants from South America.…”

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“…Many of these migrants arrived in the late 1960s and 1970s, after the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act opened the doors to migrants from South America. With the onset of the Brazilian economic crisis of the 1980s, however, the number of Brazilian‐born immigrants in the US greatly increased (Goza, 1994; Margolis, 1994, 1998; Sales, 1998; Martes, 2000; Beserra, 2003; Marcus, 2008, 2009). In her study of a Brazilian migrant community in Massachusetts, Sales (1998) found that a majority of her sample arrived in the US between the years 1985 and 1989.…”

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Social networks and selectivity in Brazilian migration to Japan and the United States

Zell

Skop

2011

Population Space and Place

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This research analyses the composition of Brazilian migrants in two case studies, comparing the demographics of first‐time migrants over time in the network between Maringá, Brazil and Japan with that between Criciúma, Brazil and the US. Couched primarily within migrant social network theory, the research explores how the legal framework operating in each case influences the level and composition of Brazilian migration over time. Brazilian migration to Japan generally occurs within the context of a legally regulated ‘ethnic‐return’ guest worker program, whereas Brazilian migration to the US is largely unauthorised. The research shows that social networks do operate to diversify the migrant demographic composition over time in both migration flows. However, the development of and dependence on social networks appears stronger in migration to the US (at least initially), which suggests a relation between the legal context of the migration flow and the form and strength of its social networks. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Social networks and selectivity in Brazilian migration to Japan and the United States

Zell

Skop

2011

Population Space and Place

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“…Through the interdisciplinary nature of this study I make several unique contributions. With the exception of the special issue of Ilha do Desterro (2001) and the works on labour by Franklin Goza and his colleagues (Goza 1994(Goza , 1999Goza and DeMaris 2003), Brazilian-Canadian flows have been largely overlooked in the transnationality literature. In English, scholarly work about capoeira is rare although the body is often made central (see Bruhns 2000;Delamont 2005;Downey 2002Downey , 2005Lewis 1995;Stephens and Delamont 2006;Talmon-Chvaicer 2004).…”

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‘Going to Brazil’: transnational and corporeal movements of a Canadian‐Brazilian martial arts community

Joseph¹

2008

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One Friday evening in 2001 I saw a crowd gathered outside a shopping centre in downtown Toronto, Canada. Performers were distinguishable from the audience only by their uniforms: 20 young men and women wearing tight white pants and shirts, each with a different coloured belt tied at the waist. They were jovial, speaking in English and Portuguese, tuning instruments, mingling with the crowd, stretching and practicing acrobatics, struggling to warm their bodies on a cool spring night. One performer slapped a drum, apparently signalling the others to take off their shoes. Some men also removed their shirts before all formed a circle and fell silent. The audience pressed close into the performers' backs, leaning in for a good view of the spectacular show to come. The leader struck a bow-shaped instrument and began to sing a sorrowful yet melodic cry that welcomed two performers into the circle and invited the rhythmic clapping and singing of those who remained on the perimeter. A large, muscular black man and a petite, lithe white woman entered the circle,

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“…Target earners are sojourners aiming for a specific financial goal. Because this usually involves attempting to save as much money as possible, as quickly as possible (Goza, 1994, Margolis, 1994, we expect them to make the transition to an employed state as soon as possible and to have lower reservation wages. The related variable REMIT monitors the effect of sending remittances to Brazil on unemployment duration.…”

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Unemployment Transitions among Brazilians in the United States and Canada

Goza

DeMaris

2003

International Migration

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This study uses the job search framework to examine the unemployment experiences of Brazilian immigrants in the North American labour force. Primary data gathered in Canada and the United States is used in these analyses. The model generally used to monitor transitions among the native-born was modified to make it more appropriate to the immigrant experience. To do this a composite model was constructed that incorporates variables unique to the immigrant experience.Event history analyses revealed that, in general, job search theory is very relevant for examining the transitions of immigrants. However, not all standard measures behaved as predicted (e.g. reservation wage). Several immigrant specific variables were very significant (e.g. target earner and legal status) and improved the overall model fit. Brazilians who worked primarily with other co-ethnics were more likely to become re-employed than those who did not, while working for a Brazilian employer had no effect on being re-employed. US/Canadian comparisons also revealed that residents of Canada endured longer periods of unemployment. We believe this result is because Canadian residents had greater access to public services and, as such, were able to have higher reservation wages.

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Brazilian Immigration to North America

Cited by 40 publications

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Social networks and selectivity in Brazilian migration to Japan and the United States

Social networks and selectivity in Brazilian migration to Japan and the United States

‘Going to Brazil’: transnational and corporeal movements of a Canadian‐Brazilian martial arts community

Unemployment Transitions among Brazilians in the United States and Canada

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