Return International Migration: a study from Portugal to Brazil at the beginning of the XXI century

The Brazilian emigration started, so massive, in the 1990s. Considered as a decade of economic crisis after market opening, with high inflation and lack of prospects, many Brazilians decided to try living abroad, mainly in the USA, UK and Portugal. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the flow Brazil-Portugal. Portugal has established itself as one of the preferred destinations of Brazilians since seems to offer socio-cultural affinities, linguistic and part of the Eurozone . What else prompted this study was the emergence of the International Crisis at the end of 2008, which, as a first hypothesis, it would upset the plans of Brazilian immigrants, once extinguished jobs and reduced the productive capacity of countries, approaching the possibility of a return to Brazil. Therefore, as a first hypothesis, that there is a heavy flow of return to Brazil was a fact and should be analyzed so that public policies could be proposed. Exploratory research was conducted in Portugal, from December 2010 to July 2011. The results indicate a slowdown in inflow in Portugal and a tendency to strengthen the output stream, not explicit in official data, but clear evidence recorded by the statements.