African Migration to Brazil in the Twenty-First Century: New Trajectories and Old Paradigms

In the last two decades, Brazil has seen deep changes in its political, economic, social, and cultural structures. Related to these changes, the country’s immigration profile also perceived structural and conjunctural changes. If in the early 2000s Brazil envisioned a progressive government and a timid immigration flow, where Africans were in the last positions of Brazilian migration statistics, in 2019/2020 the scenario would be different: a far-right and anti-immigration government and a considerable African immigrant population is one of the largest groups in the country.