Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quote

Good­ bye, Bra­ zil Good­ bye, Bra­ zil Ém­ i­ grés from the Land of Soc­ cer and Samba Max­ ine L. Mar­ go­ lis T h e U n i ­ v e r ­ s i t y o f W i s ­ c o n ­ s i n P r e s s The Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press 1930 Mon­ roe ­ Street, 3rd Floor Mad­ i­ son, Wis­ con­ sin 53711-2059 uw­ press.wisc.edu 3 Hen­ rietta ­ Street Lon­ don WC2E 8LU, En­ gland eu­ ros­ pan­ book­ store.com Copy­ right © 2013 The Board of Re­ gents of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin ­ System All ­ rights re­ served. No part of this pub­ li­ ca­ tion may be re­ pro­ duced, ­ stored in a re­ trieval ­ system, or trans­ mit­ ted, in any for­ mat or by any means, dig­ i­ tal, elec­ tronic, me­ chan­ i­ cal, photo­ cop­ y­ ing, re­ cord­ ing, or oth­ er­ wise, or con­ veyed via the Inter­ net or a web­ site with­ out writ­ ten per­ mis­ sion of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press, ex­ cept in the case of brief quo­ ta­ tions em­ bed­ ded in crit­ i­ cal ar­ ti­ cles and re­ views.­ Printed in the ­ United ­ States of Amer­ ica Li­ brary of Con­ gress ­ Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mar­ go­ lis, Max­ ine L., 1942– Good­ bye, Bra­ zil : ém­ i­ grés from the land of soc­ cer and samba / Max­ ine L. Mar­ go­ lis. p.   cm. In­ cludes bib­ lio­ graph­ i­ cal ref­ er­ ences and index. ISBN 978-0-299-29304-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-29303-1 (e-book) 1. Bra­ zil­ ians—­ Foreign coun­ tries.   2. Bra­ zil­ ians—Eth­ nic iden­ tity. 3. Bra­ zil—Em­ i­ gra­ tion and im­ mi­ gra­ tion.   I. Title. F2510.5.M37    2013 305.800981—dc23 2012032684 The art on the book cover, ti­ tled Mi­ gra­ tion, is by Chris ­ Roberts-Antieau (www.­ chrisroberts-antieau.com). It is owned by Max­ ine L. Mar­ go­ lis and Je­ rald T. Mil­ a­ nich. For Gia­ como and Luca The most won­ der­ ful ne­ tin­ hos that a nonna could ever have In exile I was able to feel how dif­ fi­ cult it was for a Bra­ zil­ ian to live out­ side Bra­ zil. Our coun­ try has so much sin­ gu­ lar­ ity as to make it ex­ tremely dif­ fi­ cult to ac­ cept and enjoy life among other peo­ ples. . . . One only has to see a gath­ er­ ing of Bra­ zil­ ians among the half mil­ lion we are ex­ port­ ing as work­ ers to sense the fa­ nat­ i­ cism with which they cling to their iden­ tity as Bra­ zil­ ians and the re­ jec­ tion of any idea of let­ ting them­ selves stay where they are. Darcy Ri­ beiro (2000, 17) ...