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“Articulate and thorough in considering the reasons so many Brazilians
have left their country, the diverse challenges and obstacles that different
kinds of Brazilians face when they move abroad, and the cultural and social
adaptations that occur as they seek a better life in their host countries or
return to Brazil.”
N. Green, author of
We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition
to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
Brazil, a country that has always received immigrants, only rarely saw its own
citizens move abroad. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, thousands of Brazil-
ians left for the United States, Japan, Portugal, Italy, and other nations, propelled
by a series of intense economic crises. By 2009 an estimated three million Brazil-
ians were living abroad—about 40 percent of them in the United States.
Goodbye, Brazil
is the first book to provide a global perspective on Brazil-
ian emigration. Drawing and synthesizing data from a host of sociological and
anthropological studies, preeminent Brazilian immigration scholar Maxine L.
Margolis surveys and analyzes this greatly expanded Brazilian diaspora, asking
who these immigrants are, why they left home, how they traveled abroad, how
the Brazilian government responded to their exodus, and how their host coun-
tries received them. Margolis shows how Brazilian immigrants, largely from the
middle rungs of Brazilian society, have negotiated their ethnic identity outside
Brazil. She argues that Brazilian society outside Brazil is characterized by the
absence of well-developed, community-based institutions—with the exception
of thriving, largely evangelical Brazilian churches.
Margolis looks to the future as well, asking what prospects at home and
abroad await the new generation, children of Brazilian immigrants with little
or no familiarity with their parents’ country of origin. Do Brazilian immigrants
develop such deep roots in their host societies that they hesitate to return home
despite Brazil’s recent economic boom—or have they become true transnationals,
traveling between Brazil and their adopted lands but feeling not quite at home in
either one?
Maxine L. Margolis
is professor emerita of
anthropology at the University of Florida and
adjunct senior research scholar at the
Institute for Latin American Studies at
Columbia University. She is the author of
Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian
Immigrants in New York City
,
True to Her
Nature: Changing Advice to American Women
,
and
An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New
York City
. She is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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“A significant, unique contribution
to our understanding of recent and
contemporary transnational migra-
tion, diasporas, and the mechanics
of globalization.”
Conrad Kottak,
author of
Assault on Paradise: The
Globalization of a Little Community
in Brazil
O f r e l a t e d i n t e r e s t
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