Since she moved to Utah and left her home country of Brazil last April to fight for the return of her five-year-old son, Cíntia Pereira has experienced the limits of strength and distress. Her son’s American father smuggled him out of Brazil to Provo nearly a year ago and still […]
Two women watch their kids play in a grey plaza on a cloudy afternoon in Brussels’ now infamous neighborhood of Molenbeek. The children, bundled in colorful puffer jackets, chase each other around on their bikes yelling and giggling. The two mothers, with their hijabs fastened snugly around their faces, lean […]
Andréa was a corporate lawyer in Rio de Janeiro until she was laid off a year ago. Despite 15 years of career experience Andréa struggled to find a new job in Brazil’s shrinking labor market, so she sold her belongings and temporarily moved herself to Queens in search of new […]
On a cloudy afternoon in late August Joanna Darck heard shots ringing through her favela in Rio de Janeiro. She quickly grabbed her 11-month-old baby, Isabella, and sat on a mattress on her kitchen floor. She placed her crying baby on her lap and waited for the gunfire to die […]
Brazilians are often overlooked as immigrants in the U.S. They aren’t Hispanic, they don’t speak Spanish and don’t identify as Latino. A small church in Queens makes room in New York for Brazilians to feel at home. Victor and Kimberly Pardo sit together on a pew at the First Brazilian […]
U.S. Brazilians Stay Away from Brazil For Fear of Zika By Christina Thornell The Zika outbreak is affecting Brazilians in New York despite being 4000 miles away. As diagnoses rise Brazilians are reconsidering traveling back home – especially pregnant women, who are afraid of contracting the virus suspected to cause […]