Cyntia de Paula: why do so many Brazilians come to Portugal?
Not counting all those who were naturalized or those who live here without being regularized, there are more than 250,000 Brazilians in Portugal. In total, it could reach 400 thousand. More possibilities of access to their areas of search for solutions are not easy in their areas of work in Portugal. But at a time when labor reduces the tendency to be used, labor power and the workforce. Be that as it may, this aging country needs immigrants. Without them, our social security, our demographic pyramid and our economy doomed. Without them, if a country is culturally poorer and narrower. A week away from important democracies, when the country of origin of this community is politically polarized and is facing the possibility of putting an end to the far-right president, we talked to Cyntia de Paula de Lisboa five years ago, an institution with decades of community defense Brazilian in Portugal. She is a feminist and migrant rights activist, she came to Portugal 13 years ago to do her master’s and doctorate in psychology.
It’s more than an interview, it’s less than a debate. It’s a conversation with contradictions in which, in the end, it’s really the guest’s opinion that matters. Mostly about politics, sometimes about really interesting things. A journalistic project by Daniel Oliveira and João Martins. Graphic image by Vera Tavares with Tiago Pereira Santos and music by Mário Laginha.