7 How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon

Torresan, Angela

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“…The 2010s and early 2020s have also witnessed a growth in the literature around the Brazilian migration to Portugal, surpassing Japan as the second most studied destination country. The middle‐class background of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal, which was already highlighted in earlier words, was further explored and problematised (Torresan, 2011a, 2012). This recent phase also saw the increased diversification of the literature, with studies published on more than 20 communities in different countries.…”

Section: The Brazilian Diaspora Literature: Broadening Geographical S...mentioning

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The Brazilian diaspora: Intra‐community dynamics and differentiating factors among Brazilian migrants worldwide

Azeredo

2024

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While the Brazilian diaspora scholarship is a vibrant literature that emerged in the 1980s and has gained prominence over the years, it remains geographically dispersed. Most studies focus on Brazilian migrants' experiences in a specific country or region of destination, and less attention has been paid to issues that influence the Brazilian diaspora transnationally. While the experiences of Brazilian migrants in different regions are varied and dependent on exogenous factors in the host society, this article reviews and discusses common markers of identity and positioning that shape intra‐community social dynamics between Brazilians who reside in different regions of the world. These ‘endogenous differentiating factors’ often produce tensions and intra‐community stratification, and may be carried from Brazil to the host community or produced in the host society. This article aims to integrate the geographically dispersed literature and emphasise commonalities experienced by Brazilians worldwide. It also argues that the focus on endogenous differentiating factors relates to a scholarly trend to frame the ‘Brazilian community’ as a heterogeneous entity with its own social dynamics rather than a homogenous ethnic group.

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The Brazilian diaspora: Intra‐community dynamics and differentiating factors among Brazilian migrants worldwide

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2024

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“…This first wave of Brazilian migration into Portugal, which lasted until the end of the 1990s, mostly comprised highly skilled middle-class professionals (Torresan, 2007). When I began conducting fieldwork in Lisbon in 1996, there were 20,082 Brazilians with legal residence in Portugal, most of them qualified professionals (SEF, 1997).…”

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Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal

Torresan

2021

Critique of Anthropology

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By the late 1990s, when I was conducting ethnographic fieldwork research in Lisbon, the ‘dentists’ case’ had become a familiar trope for the presence of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. Although it involved a small group of Brazilian and Portuguese professionals, it gained visibility in the media of both countries, escalating into a political and diplomatic quarrel, and culminating in the amendment of the 1966 Cultural Accord. I use Victor Turner’s concept of social drama to address the case as a chapter in the cyclical pattern of connection and disconnection of postcolonial Luso-Brazilian relationships. Drawing from a recent discussion on the concept of cosmopolitanism in migration studies, I employ the idea of postcolonial sociabilities to help explore the seemingly inherent ambiguities in the relationship between Brazilians and Portuguese.

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L’expérience de la rencontre avec l’autre imaginé : cercle interprétatif et négociation identitaire chez les expatriés occidentaux en Inde

Giguère

2014

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Des archétypes de l’Inde persistent à travers le temps grâce à une chaîne continue et répétitive de stéréotypes qui enferment le sujet dans un cercle interprétatif. À partir d’une recherche ethnographique menée auprès d’expatriés occidentaux insérés en Inde dans des zones frontière spécifiques et répondant au fantasme de l’ailleurs, nous voyons ce qu’il advient de ce cercle interprétatif dans la rencontre interculturelle. L’article montre l’influence notable des représentations collectives de l’Inde (et de l’Occident) sur les interactions sociales, de même que leur réappropriation lors de la rencontre. Trois exemples montrent comment les discours et les modes d’organisation sociale des expatriés reproduisent des dichotomies classiques entre l’Inde et l’Occident, et ce, malgré le fait que ceux-ci se réclament d’un statut liminal et d’une posture critique face à la modernité.Archetypes of India persist through time thanks to a continual and repetitive chain of stereotypes, confining the subject in an interpretive circle. Through ethnographic research conducted among Western expatriates living in various borderzones in India, each one corresponding to different fantasies of elsewhere-ness, we shall see what becomes of the interpretive circle during the encounter. The article shows the influence of collective representations of India (and of the West) on social interactions, as well as their reappropriation during the encounter. Three examples will show how discourse as well as modes of social organisation among Western expatriates reproduces classic dichotomies between India and the West, even though expatriates assert their own liminality and their critical stance towards modernity

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7 How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon

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The Brazilian diaspora: Intra‐community dynamics and differentiating factors among Brazilian migrants worldwide

The Brazilian diaspora: Intra‐community dynamics and differentiating factors among Brazilian migrants worldwide

Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal

L’expérience de la rencontre avec l’autre imaginé : cercle interprétatif et négociation identitaire chez les expatriés occidentaux en Inde

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