Immigrants workers in the New York city's and São Paulo city's garment industry

The present work attempts a comparative perspective of the apparel industry that make use of foreign workers in the São Paulo City and New York City. We focus our attention on the garment industry that employs large number of undocumented immigrant workers, mostly of Hispanic origin. We have among the central hypothesis the increase of sector based in the use of illegal immigrants workforce and precarious work relations. Trying to understand the phenomenon from their own mechanisms, we consider the importance of the immigrants historically established in these cities and in the productive sector. For such, we use a literature review about the transnational migration of workers and the sector productive organization. We expect to constitute theoretical instrumental that contributes for the understanding of the thematic and allow establishing links between the Brazilian and the U.S experience.