The Brazilians in Sydney

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Cristina Rocha

Abstract

Brazil has traditionally been a country that received inflows of migrants. However, in the last two decades of the twentieth century the flow has been reversed. Since the early 1980s, many Brazilians have emigrated, due to a socio-economic crisis that has resulted in massive social inequalities and rampant crime and violence. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, four million people have left the country. The largest communities are in the US, Paraguay and Japan.

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Sydney's People
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Cristina Rocha, Dictionary of Sydney

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney