Recently, during a dinner in São Paulo, a friend, an executive in a technology company, announced to us that he and his wife were considering moving to Lisbon. “Public schools in Portugal are excellent, we live in safety, and my job allows me to do almost everything remotely”, he explained. Other guests also said, after having spent several months working from home during the pandemic, thinking about a family move to Lisbon or Miami.
Like them, a growing number of Brazilians are going abroad in search of a better life. If emigration remains inaccessible to the poorest, most of these candidates for departure are less privileged than the guests at this dinner. Thus the number of Brazilians officially residing in Portugal recently broke a new record, with 252,000 people, up 23% compared to last year.
If we include undocumented migrants and several thousand Brazilian nationals not counted because they hold European nationality, Brazilians in Portugal are probably around 500,000.
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Americas Quarterly (New York)
Founded in 2007, Americas Quarterly (AQ) is an analytical journal devoted to the politics, economy and culture of Latin America, as well as to the relations between the subcontinent and the rest of the world, headquartered in New York. It is a nonprofit publication of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA), organizations devoted to debate and dialogue in the Americas. Many analysts, often located in the countries concerned, feed the review and its website, which is regularly updated.
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