O fluxo de estrangeiros para o Brasil em fins do Novecentos

Abstract

This paper presents the main results of a research on recent immigration to Brazil whose objectives were surveying the sources of data, discussing the quality of information available and outlining the profiles of the immigrant population in the end of the last century. The data banks examined, although not necessarily built up to keep track of the influx of immigrants to Brazil, allowed us to trace the characteristics of the stock of foreigners resident in Brazil as well as those of the flow ofimmigrants recently arrived. We observed population movements related to the privatization process and sales of national companies to foreign capital, e.g., Spanish, as well as movements of economically excluded people, such as Bolivians, struggling to survive. Both movements clearly represent the two faces of the same coin, and together reflect the characteristics of modern capitalism.