Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba

by Maxine L. Margolis

Book Overview

Brazil, a country that has always received immigrants, only rarely saw its own citizens move abroad. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, thousands of Brazilians left for the United States, Japan, Portugal, Italy, and other nations, propelled by a series of intense economic crises. By 2009 an estimated three million Brazilians were living abroad--about 40 percent of them in the United States.
Goodbye, Brazil is the first book to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299293041
• ISBN13: 9780299293048
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"