THIS PAPER is an excogitation on Brazilian immigration to Portugal and on the relationship between the immigrants and various Portuguese ethnic categories. Seeing that the sites chosen by Brazilian immigrants from among a hierarchy of Portuguese alterities presume an ethnization of the entire Brazilian migrant population, I have attempted to demonstrate that, hidden beneath the ethnicized label of "Brazilians in Portugal", one finds a diverse and extremely varied population in terms of how they build their identity. In addition, I have made a concise analysis of the political consequences of the ethnical-political discourse regarding the citizenship and integration of the Brazilian immigrant population in Portugal.
Ethnicity; International migrations; Portugal; Brazilian immigration
