Brazil - EDC case study
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- Created on: 01-06-22 11:31
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- Brazil
- Profile
- 7th largest economy in the world
- leading economic power in latin america
- 69% service, 25% industry, 6% agriculture
- declining birth rate and ageing population
- 7th largest economy in the world
- current migration patterns
- net migration loss of 1/2 a million in 2000-04 and 2005-09
- slowed to 190000 in 2010-14
- increased migration with neighbouring countries eg. chile
- increased emigration of highly skilled workers
- to usa, europe and japan
- increase in international labour migrants
- for world cup and 2016 olympics
- net migration loss of 1/2 a million in 2000-04 and 2005-09
- changes in migration over time
- brazil was recipient of migrants in 19th and 20th century
- europeans and japanese attracted by agricultural sector - coffee
- immigration has slowed as 80000 less immigrants living here than start of century
- emmigration has increased - 0.98m in 2000 and 1.77 million in 2013
- usa has brazil's largest overseas population for economic reasons
- brazilians of japanese descent have mpved to japan for employment
- brazil was recipient of migrants in 19th and 20th century
- Portugal
- long standing bilateral relationship on political, social and economic basis
- brazil was a former colony of portugal who still give brazilians special migrant status
- economic migrants use portugal as entrry to the eu
- migrant remittances are important economic factor for many families in brazil
- integration fro sshared language ancestry and family ties
- long standing bilateral relationship on political, social and economic basis
- USA
- Political, socio-economic and environmental links
- 1000s of low skilled economic migrants in usa send significant remittances
- returning migrants have skills and knowledge contributing to brazilian development
- high skilled brazilians find opportunities in usa's service sector
- strong links in teacher training and education
- USAID - supports brazilian environmental projects
- training xavante indigineous people to protect from fire
- Haiti
- political, economic and humanitarian relationship
- national immigration council for brazil enables haitian immigrants to obtain visas quite easily in haiti
- this reduces vulnerability to trafficking networks
- immigrants have increased from 1681 in 2010 to 11072 in 2013
- this is still increasing as haitians are escaping poverty, unemployment, unstable politics and human rights violations
- many join family and friends in south east brazil
- low skilled jobs are available in agriculture and factories
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