Manual Do Imigrante - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Started in 2004 as a educational and social project intended to give assistance to recent immigrants, Manual do Imigrante has become an indispensable guide for practically any imigrant. Although imigrant guides exist in other languages and among other immigrant groups, Manual do Imigrante is a groundbreaking work for the Brazilian community. "This work deserves merit for its pioneering nature. I hope that starting with this manual, similar initiatives will be launched, contributing to the enlightenment of the growing Brazilian immigrant community, which needs to be informed and organize itself, starting with the support of its own people," reads a letter from Ambassador JÚlio CÉsar Gomes dos Santos, written while he was consul of the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.Written from the perspective of the Brazilian community, Manual do Imigrante was authored by journalist JosÉli Meyer and activist Eryck Duran. The information in this book covers and responds to the many doubts that immigrants encounter each day. Subjects covered in the book include work, housing, health family and education, as well as difficult and unexpected situations like death, immigration status and political and popular representation.According to unofficial data, there are more than one million Braziliians in the US, with the greatest concentration in the jurisdiction of the Brazilian Consulate in New York, which covers Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Bermuda. Despite the statistics, and principally despite the large number of money transfers sent home by Brazilian immigrants, there is still not an effective way to measure the number of Brazilian immigrants, who have mostly only learned what to do and how to act in situations that are not always agreeable, whether in the case of the death of a lovedone, an accident at work, or even a sickness.All the information in the Manual do Imigrante that refer to state laws concentrate on the states of New York and New Jersey, which have the largest number of Brazilians. The authors plan to update this book each year and expect to include information on other states and their respective laws..Despite the seriousness of the information included, many subjects have been communicated in a good-humored way, through drawings by Diogo Hayashi, a Brazilian who lived in the US for many years. His illustrations characterize very well many of the situations faced by immigrants in the US.Manual do Imigrante includes community participation, through information provided by immigrants and professionals specialized in the appropriate subjects.

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