Brazil - Portugal Bridges Over the Atlantic - by Lená Medeiros de Menezes

The work is based on the premise that emigration and immigration constitute a complex process that goes beyond the specific episode of displacement, deeply affecting the lives of its protagonists. The book addresses this set of actions that range from the decision to emigrate – and the preparations involved in leaving – to arrival, adaptation in the receiving society and reconstruction of identity, in addition to economic, social, cultural, affective and mental aspects. . The articles highlight the way in which this movement of encounters and disagreements affects the individual who becomes a foreigner and begins to experience what Todorov calls “double exteriority”.

This collection offers an in-depth look mainly at Portuguese immigrants.