Brasil e Portugal: nova dinâmica migratória contemporânea

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fabiana Mota da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13439
• topic: Geography of population; Contemporary international migration; Globalization; Migration; Social networks; Brazil; Portugal; Geografia da população; Migrações internacionais contemporâneas; Globalização; Migração; Redes sociai; Brasil; Portugal; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

The migratory history shared between Brazil and Portugal has been marked, for centuries, by the coming of Portuguese to Brazil. However, in recent decades, Brazil, traditional country of immigration, has become a country of emigration, Portugal being one of the preferred countries of destination of this migratory movement. Portugal, in turn, experiences the opposite movement: parallel to population movements in output, there has been a growing influx of immigrants into Portuguese territory. This master s thesis is aimed at, therefore, to understand what factors have led to the change in the relationship between Brazil and Portugal with regard to migration flows between the two countries from the 1980s. The methodology for this research consisted of reading relevant literature on the subject and referring to the guiding concepts in this work (migration and social networks), plus interviews with Brazilians who went to Portugal after the year 1980, whereas they make up important sources in the seizure of specific characteristics of this migratory process. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, we focus on the analysis of some explanatory factors noted this change, as the phenomenon of globalization. The economic and political situation that Brazil was in, in the period characterized as the "lost decade", was also quite enlightening of the factors responsible for the trigger of this emigration flow. The understanding of the direction of this migratory flow towards Portugal required the examination of the economic e political context of this country, its foreign legislation and the role played by social networks consolidated between Brazilians and Portuguese. Finally, we draw a profile of migrants in an attempt to understand who are these Brazilians who migrated to Portugal from the 1980s. Besides some general characteristics of the Brazilian population in Portugal, as their academic qualification and their distribution in the Portuguese territory, we tried to understand how the insertion of Brazilian immigrants in the Portuguese labor market occurred through the recognition of the main occupations performed by them.