Brazilian Migrants Have Recreated Places and Spaces within Immigrant Receiving Communities

Many of those who remain in the United States long to one day return to Brazil. Brazilians call this melancholic type of longing, saudades. Stories of financial and personal failure and the problems that arise from re-adaptation from other returnees will not be widely disseminated in sending communities, as the social stigma of failure is tantamount to being unable to live up to the 'migrant ideal' of succeeding abroad. Some return to the United States for a second time, for another four or six-year period, with the intent to save enough money to eventually return to Brazil and purchase a house, an apartment, a car, or start a new business. Some returnees who Cartier Jewelry stay in Brazil reminisce about American cultural values and norms, and wish to return again to the United States, but fear the process of living as an undocumented immigrant. Some returnees are quite happy with their decision to remain in Brazil, and many regret the return to Brazil.

Perceptions of the migrant experience are akin to a 'gold-rush' mentality, and in the case of successful returnees, they have indeed found the "gold and brought it back home," as one informant put it. These returnees, who were financially successful and saved enough money, have thus returned triumphantly to their hometowns, receiving local accolades for "exploring the unknown wilderness abroad". Their trajectories abroad are embedded within geographical metaphors and tales reminiscent of ancient travelers and mariners from the Age of Exploration. Furthermore, they have Chanel Jewelry fulfilled their curiosity, 'reaping the riches' only to return home. Their stories will disseminate throughout sending communities, seducing others who will try their 'luck' in this type of migrant experience, diffusing geographical imaginations and enticing further curiosity among those who never left Brazil.

Migration processes affect not only those who leave Brazil and those who remain in sending communities, but also those who return to Brazil (i.e. returnees). Brazilian migrants have (re)created places and spaces within immigrant receiving communities, and they have also incorporated and added new elements to their livelihoods in respective sending communities.