As a lens on US immigration debates, Margolis (emerita, anthropology, U. of Florida) counters stereotypes about illegal aliens in her study of Brazilian immigrants in New York City. From the time of h
Brazil, a country that has always received immigrants, only rarely saw its own citizens move abroad. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, thousands of Brazilians left for the United States, Japan, Po
"Well-argued, clearly written essays by anthropologists committed to understanding culture through theoretically grounded analysis of its material underpinnings.? The authors' impassioned call for an
"An incisive, nuanced, and multidimensional case study. Martes challenges and revises accepted notions of ethnic solidarity, and emphasizes how much more diversity exists among the Brazilian newcomers
