Title  Current mobility of qualified young Portuguese people to Brazil
Author  Caroline Fracalossi
Advisor  Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos
Year  2013
Institution  Faculty of Economics, Univesity of Porto
Degree  Masters
Area  Economics and International Management
Keywords  International migration, Portuguese workers in Brazil, qualified youth mobiliy
URI  https://hdl.handle.net/10216/69343

Abstract 

Considering the context of a world more globalized each day and without borders, the study of international migration has acquired great importance and deserved attention by the international community.
In the range of this extensive theme, the present study has intented to verify which are the influence factors of the increasing mobility of qualified young Portuguese workers qualified to Brazil, after 2008, aiming to identify the main causes of this increase, related to the individual motivations of this Portuguese emigrants. This way, eight categories had been established, four of economical factors (economical growth, job market, familiar migration and remittances and the need of specific workforce), and other four factors, not necessarily economical (personal interests, contact networks, national and specific local factors).
In this sense, this study aims at filling out the gap in literature about the current individual migration movements phenomenon, which has been growing constantly, in a context of worldwide crisis, that has mainly affected developed countries, associated to the economical growth of emerging economies. To do so, the qualitative method was used, through semi-structured interviews of intensive type applied to ten Portuguese people, individual emigrant workers, young, licentiates, whose emigration was after 2008, considering Portugal as the origin country and Brazil as the destination.The present investigation has highlighted the  important role that the not strictly economical factors perform in the decision by international migration, comparing to the role of economical ones. So, this way, the main influence factors, highlighted by the interviewed, were: (1º) personal growth interests, professional development and future acknowledgement due to the international experience; (2º) economical matters, related to the lack of perspective for future economic growth in Portugal and to Brazil’s development and economical growth; (3º) contact networks, the language and the weather of Brazil; and (4º) factors related to the job market in both countries.