Brazil migration (EDC)

• What is Brazil’s net migration loss?

  190,000 people
• A former Portuguese colony which means Portugal give special status to Brazilian migrants.
• How much in remittances did Brazil receive in 2015?

  $219,000,000
• Portugal is a gateway into the EU for Brazilians
• Where is Brazil’s largest population overseas located in?

  USA: 370,000
• What do USAID do in Brazil?

  They support environmental projects e.g training indigenous people to protect land from forest fires. Also, political assistance governing sustainable forest management law
• Immigration flows from Haiti with people escaping political instability, unemployment, poverty and HR reputation. Low skilled jobs available in agriculture and factories
• What do return migrants from the USA bring to Brazil?

  Social remittances e.g skill and knowledge to develop Brazil
• Local multiplier effect as a result of remittances from Portugal and USA.
• Waves of migration has helped agriculture and manufacturing to grow.
• Highly skilled economic migrants mean reduced gaps in labour market and brings new innovation - this helps Brazil economy to grow and diversify.
• What does Brazil’s membership to MERCOSUR mean?

  Freedom of movement between member states, a person can be employed in another state without a visa for two years
• What is ‘Operation Welcome’?

  A policy to relocate Venezuelan refugees
• Where do people mainly emigrate from Brazil?

  USA, Europe and Japan
• Rise of economic labour migrants who came to work on construction projects on Rio in 2016.
• There has been increased migration from Haiti following 2010 earthquake and outbreaks of disease.
• How do people from Africa usually Migrate into Brazil?

  They go via ‘transit countries’ like Ecuador and Chile and are then smuggled across borders
• What internal migration occurs in Brazil?

  Migration from the poor north east to cities of the south east
• Since the 2000s emigration has increased while immigration has decreased.
• During 19th and 20th century Europeans and Japanese attracted to work in agriculture (coffee cultivation).