Algumas características do fluxo migratório de brasileiros de Governador Valadares para Portugal

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  • Igor José de Renó Machado Departamento de Ciências Sociais da UFSCar, Coordenador do LEM (Laboratório de Estudos Migratórios)
  • Alexandra C. Gomes Almeida Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia, UFSCar, Pesquisadora do LEM (Laboratório de Estudos Migratórios)
  • Ellem Saraiva Reis Graduada em Ciências Sociais, UFSCar Pesquisadora do LEM (Laboratório de Estudos Migratórios)

Abstract

The paper analyses Brazilian immigrants’ experiences in Portugal. These immigrants came from Governador Valadares, a Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais. The research demonstrates the existence of processes of “social hiddeness” on the part of the immigrants, who avoid being recognized in public. We also identify a division between immigrants who consume goods considered superfluous and those who focus exclusively on the accumulation of resources, avoiding expenses with leisure, for example. The Valadarenses devalue morally the immigrants’ consumption they consider superflous, associating this kind of consumtion to a depreciation of the family.

Capa do n.º 11 da revista Antropológicas

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No. 11 (2009)

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