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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 --- 49 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/framingham/news/x390623105/More-Brazilians-opt-for-Eu
Three Brazilian researchers recently visited Framingham to investigate the new migration patterns of Brazilians, many of whom are now choosing Europe over the United States as their destination. Leading the group was Sueli Siqueira, a sociologist with the University of Vale do Rio Doce in Governador Valadares, the city in Brazil where the migration of Brazilians abroad began. Accompanying Siqueira were historian Emerson Cesar de Campos and anthropologist Glaucia de Oliveira Assis, both professors from the University of Santa Catarina, another state in Brazil that has sent thousands of its residents abroad. Two years ago, large numbers of Brazilians began going home as a result of several factors: harsher immigration enforcement, growing demand for working documents, an economic slump in the United States and the worsening exchange rate between the dollar and Brazilian real. Siqueira was surprised to find out that nearly one-third of those who were returning from the United States were planning to migrate to Europe, she said. Local travel agencies in Valadares report a 60 percent increase in sales of tickets to Europe, Siqueira said. The same thing is happening in Santa Catarina, said Assis, but despite the growing numbers of Brazilians going to Europe, the United States continues to be the first choice for Brazilians, she said. "Even though it's more difficult to migrate to the United States now, still more people prefer to go to ... |
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