Mapping and analysis of social networks in the flow of Brazilians to Canada

• Grant number: 11/03830-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Oswaldo Mario Serra Truzzi
• Grantee: Rodrigo Fessel Sega
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 09/06502-2 - Migration Observatory in São Paulo (phases and faces of the migration in São Paulo), AP.TEM

Abstract

The objective is to confront the mechanisms of adaptation and migration of Brazilians in Canada with the theory of social networks in order to verify the hypothesis that neoclassical theory does not cover all issues of current reality of migration, adding to debate the theoretical concepts theories of social networks as an element that maintains the flow. Therefore, this project comprises two interrelated steps. First, draw a census and socioeconomic profile of Brazilian immigrants to Canada. Secondly, we intend to map and analyze the patterns of adaptation of immigrants during the entire migration process and confront the social network theory. (AU)