Alternative Names
Brazucas, Brazilians living in the United States; also, Brazilians of non-Portuguese descent in Portugal. Dekasseguis, Brazilians of Japanese descent living in Japan. Brasiguaios, Brazilians living in Paraguay.
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Brazilians began leaving their homeland in large numbers in the mid to late 1980s. They emigrated to the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Portugal, Italy, England, and other European countries. The vast majority reside in urban areas in those nations. In the United States Brazilians are clustered in the greater New York metropolitan area (including Newark), the Boston metropolitan area, South Florida, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Smaller numbers live in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and several cities and towns in New Jersey and Connecticut. The majority of Brazilians in Canada live in Toronto. In Italy they are concentrated in Milan and Rome, in Portugal most live in Lisbon and its environs and, in England a majority live in...
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Margolis, M.L. (2005). Brazilians in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Paraguay. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_62
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