EDC - Brazil

• 2000 - 2009 net loss of 1 million people
• 2010-2014 net loss of 190,000
• 2013 - 1.77 million Brazilians live abroad
• 370,000 to USA
• 80,000 fewer immigrants living in Brazil than 2000
• Movement between Brazil, south America, Chile, Peru and Bolivia

  -High skilled to USA, Europe, Japan
• 2014 - Labour migrants in for Olympics and word cup in brazil
• -From Haiti due to earthquake

  -Africa - Ecuador - Brazil

  -Europeans for coffee cultivation

  -From Paraguay and Bolivia
• Emigration to Japan, Portugal and Italy
• Brazil - Portugal

  -Brazil gets remittances - Portugal get labour migrants

  -Brazil in Portugal colony - 15th century

  -Brazil has special status - same rights as natives eg. travel, voting

  -Same language, higher wages, EU gateway
• 1.3 million households receive remittances

  -Most earn <$10,000 per year

  -$2.4 billion per year - 0.1% of GDP
• Manufacturing and agriculture grow as gaps in labour market are filled - economy grows
• MERCOSUR = Free movement in member states, without VISAs for 2 years

  +flow of people, trade, money, co-operative governments, political stability
• Ability to receive and process refugees - Political stability
• Poor migrants cluster in favelas
• Rural/urban divide - aging population
• Brazil - Haiti

  -Easier for Haitians to get VISAs - stop trafficking

  -2010 = 1,681

  -2013 = 11,000

  -Trying to get to SE Rio Grande and Santa Catarina - filled low skilled jobs