Brazils interdependence with USA

• Low-skilled economic migrants from Brazil = higher wages in the US doing the same job
• Returning migrants bring back “social remittances“ e.g. knowledge
• Increasingly greater opportunities for highly skilled Brazilians in the US (teaching, service industries, and management)
• US—Brazil gave strong links and agreements on education (40k teachers/students take part in a language exchange each year)
• Political agreements between defences (military information and intelligence), education and environment (preventing forest fires + improving forest management)
• USAID - Part of the US federal government helps support Brazilian communities with training, advise and finance; also training Xavante indigenous people on how to prevent forest fires