Migration and racism
My doctoral dissertation is a mixed-methods, comparative study of how international migration aspirations and capabilities are influenced by individual and structural inequalities associated with class and skin-color-based racism. I look at the case-study of Brazil and Brazilian migration to the United States (Boston) and Portugal (Lisbon).
I investigate how class and racial inequalities and discrimination interact to produce different migration outcomes, shaping individual migration aspirations and abilities through three migration mechanisms: segregated social networks, differential access to information (online and offline) and (social, financial) remittances, and discriminatory organizational practices.
As a part of this research, and both within and beyond the context of my dissertation, I am collecting data that will allow me to tap into how the ethnic and racial identities and attitudes of international migrants shift during migration, and how racial (skin-color) discrimination affects the incorporation of migrants differently across (national, local) contexts of reception.
I investigate how class and racial inequalities and discrimination interact to produce different migration outcomes, shaping individual migration aspirations and abilities through three migration mechanisms: segregated social networks, differential access to information (online and offline) and (social, financial) remittances, and discriminatory organizational practices.
As a part of this research, and both within and beyond the context of my dissertation, I am collecting data that will allow me to tap into how the ethnic and racial identities and attitudes of international migrants shift during migration, and how racial (skin-color) discrimination affects the incorporation of migrants differently across (national, local) contexts of reception.