The adaptation of brazilian foreign policy related to the emigration phenomenon

When fluxes of Brazilians to other countries unchain, in the 1980s, Brazil was living a fase of democratic construction and of revaluation of Human Rights. With the increase of visibility of the fluxes in that context, Brazil starts to extend, as part of its foreign policy, civil, political, economical, social and cultural rights to nationals and their descendants living abroad. This article, therefore, aims to explore how the Ministry of Foreign Relations has been adapting to the emigration phenomenon. We conclude that discourse and format of emigrant policies in Brazil, to a great extent, come from the “global” agenda; and that, beyond the attempt of legitimacy, concession of rights represents a form of symbolic policies of bonding and to accomplish political and economical interests.