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Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba
GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba. By Maxine L. Margolis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. Pp. xvii, 289. Tables. Notes. Ref- erences. Index. $29.95 paper.
After two decades of pioneering work on Brazilian immigration to the United States, Maxine L. Margolis has written the first book that provides a global perspective of Brazilian immigrant communities throughout the world-from Paraguay, Europe, and North America to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Margolis uses the broad canvas of Brazilian global migration to paint an elegant picture and an intelligent synthesis of various sociocultural, economic, and demographic dimensions of Brazilian immigrant communities abroad. The 12 expertly written chapters of this book are insightful and valuable to scholars and to the general public alike.
While Brazil has historically been a country of immigration, not emigration, the carni- val parades and Brazilian Independence Day celebrations held today in cities such as Tokyo, Toronto, New Orleans,...