Corridors Of Migrant Flows Create Interdependence Between Countries

Question 1

What type of country is Brazil?

Answer 1

EDC

Question 2

What sector is employment growing in in Brazil?

Answer 2

Secondary sector

Question 3

What sort of population does Brazil have?

Answer 3

Ageing

Question 4

What is Brazil’s working age population like?

Answer 4

Large

Question 5

What systems are developing in Brazil?

Answer 5

Education and health care

Question 6

What was the net migration loss over two four year periods?

Answer 6

Half a million

Question 7

What type of migration is currently slowing?

Answer 7

Emigration of lower skilled migrants to the USA

Question 8

What type of migration is increasing?

Answer 8

Emigration of highly skilled workers to Europe, USA, Japan

Question 9

What attracts Europeans to Brazil?

Answer 9

Agricultural work
Coffee cultivation

Question 10

What attracts the Japanese to Brazil?

Answer 10

Agricultural work
Industry

Question 11

Why do migrants from Bolivia, Angola, and Lebanon come to Brazil?

Answer 11

Political crises

Question 12

For how long has immigration into Brazil been slowing?

Answer 12

Past 15 years

Question 13

How many fewer immigrants are living in Brazil than at the start of the century?

Answer 13

80,000

Question 14

Where is Brazil’s largest overseas population?

Answer 14

USA

Question 15

Where are there strong cultural links so people of that descent move their for employment?

Answer 15

Japan

Question 16

What sort of relationship do Brazil and Portugal have?

Answer 16

Longstanding bilateral

Question 17

How does Brazil being a former Portuguese colony benefit Brazil?

Answer 17

Portuguese government give special status to Brazilian migrants

Question 18

What is Portugal a gateway to?

Answer 18

European Union entry

Question 19

Why is there easy integration between Brazil and Portugal?

Answer 19

Shared language, ancestry, family ties

Question 20

What sort of migration benefits from Brazil and Portugal’s developed social diaspora networks?

Answer 20

Reciprocal

Question 21

What type of skilled migrants benefit from USA migration?

Answer 21

Both low skilled and returning

Question 22

Where can highly skilled migrants work in the USA?

Answer 22

Service sector

Question 23

Who gives support to Brazil in environmental projects?

Answer 23

USAID

Question 24

Who are the indigenous people that USAID train to protect their tribal lands from forest fires?

Answer 24

Xavante

Question 25

How does Brazil help Haitian immigrants?

Answer 25

Allow them to obtain visas in Haiti to protect them from traffickers

Question 26

Why are immigrants from Haiti growing?

Answer 26

Attempting to escape from political instability, unemployment, poverty, poor human rights

Question 27

What jobs are available to Haiti immigrants?

Answer 27

Low skilled agriculture and factories

Question 28

Which sectors are experiencing growth in Brazil?

Answer 28

Agriculture and manufacturing

Question 29

What are highly skilled professional immigrants meaning for Brazil?

Answer 29

Entrepreneurship, reducing labour market gaps

Question 30

How are migrant remittances to Brazil used by families?

Answer 30

Housing improvements
Education
General Consumption

Question 31

What is Brazil’s political system like?

Answer 31

Stable and democratic

Question 32

What group is Brazil a leading member of?

Answer 32

Mercosur

Question 33

What is Brazil an important receiver of?

Answer 33

Environmental and political refugees

Question 34

Where does UNESCO say inequalities are in Brazil?

Answer 34

Between ethnic groups

Question 35

Which areas of Brazil are poverty concentrated?

Answer 35

Rural areas
Favelas

Question 36

Who are discriminated against in the Brazilian labour market?

Answer 36

Black and indigenous people