Little Brazil An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City

Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from Rockefeller Center, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of New York's Brazilian newspaper, a Brazilian travel agency, a business that sends remittances and wires flowers to Brazil, and a store that sells Brazilian food products, magazines, newspapers, videos, and tapes. These businesses are the tip of an ethnic and unseen minority estimated to number some 80,000 to 100,000 Brazilians in the New York metropolitan area alone.