Return is part of the migratory project, however, while some migrants return others remain. The recent economic crisis is one of the factors that intensified return. This article illustrates the return dynamics of Brazilian immigrants in the United States and four European countries - Portugal, UK, the Netherlands and Norway -, including processes of estrangement, circularity and adaptation over time. The data allow us to conclude that conditions in the destination country are a decisive contribution to migration strategies. Returnees face difficulties of (re) adaptation in the origin country. The return due to the crisis produces perverse effects both in subject and in the territory.
brazilian international migration; return; circularity