African refugees in Sao Paulo, Brazil: migration spaces

This paper seeks to identify the empirical evidence of the African refugee population in São Paulo in dialogue with theoretical elements for understanding this migratory flow. In the text are highlighted context of immigration of refugees - the international frameworks and Brazil as a country of refuge - and three theoretical aspects related to search results about the African refugees in São Paulo: the living spaces of this refugee immigration, the effort to maintain the identity of these immigrants and the consequences of estrangement of the host society and its effects on immigrant labor insertion of the refugees in Sao Paulo.