Brazilian Immigration to North America

Abstract

"This article is a comparative study of Brazilian immigration to Canada and the United States. Analysis of recently collected data in Toronto, Ontario and in a medium-size U.S. community facilitated the examination of the adaptation and adjustment experiences of a new group of immigrants to North America. This article begins with a discussion of the origins of this recent immigrant group and its rapid expansion. Next, it focuses on the labor force activities of Brazilian immigrants and compares and contrasts their experiences in the United States and Canada. A final section examines social adaptation in North America by exploring linguistic and cultural dimensions. This article closes with a section on the future aspirations of these immigrants."

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

“…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).…”

Brazilian Immigration to Ontario

“…4. These data and the methods used to collect them are discussed in additional detail in a study contrasting the experiences of Brazilian immigrants in the US and Canada (see Goza, 1994). 5.…”

“…This area also accounts for 16 per cent of women immigrants. While one might suspect that these results occurred because of the nonprobabilistic snowball sampling framework, it should be noted that for at least two decades Governador Valadares has experienced high rates of emigration (Goza, 1994). Migration chains or networks from this area to many US destinations are now well established (Margolis, 1994).…”

Emigração internacional de brasileiros para os Estados Unidos: as redes sociais e o papel de intermediação nos deslocamentos exercido pelas agências de turismo

“…Notadamente, a concentração de mineiros, paulistas, cariocas, goianos e, mais recentemente, catarinenses no contingente emigrante -além de a distribuição de sexos ter se tornado cada vez mais equilibrada -tem chamado a atenção dos pesquisadores da migração (SALES, 1995(SALES, e 1999MARTES, 2000MARTES, e 2003SOARES, 2002b;GOZA, 1992GOZA, , 1994GOZA, e 2003MARGO-LIS, 1994e 2003MITCHELL, 2003;ASSIS, 2003;RIBEIRO, 1999).…”