Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from Rockefeller Centre, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of New York's Brazilian newspaper, a Brazilian travel agency, a business that sends remittances and wires flowers to Brazil, and a store that sells Brazilian food products, magazines, newspapers, videos and tapes. These businesses are the tip of an ethnic iceberg, an unseen minority estimated to number some 80,000 to l00,000 Brazilians in the New York metropolitan area alone. Despite their numbers, the lives of these people remain largely hidden to scholars and the public alike. This is an account of the lives of New York's Brazilians. Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, the study reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. Not driven by dire poverty or political repression, they are fleeing from chaotic economic conditions that prevent them from maintaining a middle-class standard of living in Brazil. But despite their class origin and education, with little English and no work papers, many are forced to take menial jobs after their arrival in the United States.
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remittance agency, housekeeping for the green card, car service companies, legitimate tourists, visa overstayers, undocumented individuals, consular personnel, shoe shiners, consular district, amnesty program, undocumented aliens, shoe shining, tourist visas, undocumented immigrants, restaurant work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Dona Dahlia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Governador Valadares, Big Apple, Sáo Paulo, New Jersey, Little Brazil, Kennedy Airport, Belo Horizonte, Säo Paulo, Central Park, Tia Mimi, Long Island, Disney World, Los Angeles, Aunt Mimi, Puerto Rican, Brazilian Independence Day, Father Franklin, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Universal Church New!
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THESE QUOTES reflect two Brazilian realities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remittance agency, housekeeping for the green card, car service companies, legitimate tourists, visa overstayers, undocumented individuals, consular personnel, shoe shiners, consular district, amnesty program, undocumented aliens, shoe shining, tourist visas, undocumented immigrants, restaurant work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Dona Dahlia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Governador Valadares, Big Apple, Sáo Paulo, New Jersey, Little Brazil, Kennedy Airport, Belo Horizonte, Säo Paulo, Central Park, Tia Mimi, Long Island, Disney World, Los Angeles, Aunt Mimi, Puerto Rican, Brazilian Independence Day, Father Franklin, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Universal Church New!
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- New Immigrants in New York by Nancy Foner on 6 pages
- Birds of Passage by Brian Castro on 4 pages
- Immigration in New York by Elizabeth Bogen on 4 pages
- Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America by David Reimers on 4 pages
- An Introduction to Brazil by Charles Wagley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (Contributions to the Sociology of Language) by Ofelia Garcia on page 45, and page 49
- Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond by Walter Armbrust on page 36, and Back Matter
- Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism by Jeffrey Lesser on page 101, and page 159
- Brazilian Immigrants in the United States: Cultural Imperialism and Social Class (New Americans) by Bernadete Beserra on page 73, and Back Matter
- Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism by Jeffrey Lesser on page 101, and page 159
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