Congresso Nacional sobre a Imigração Brasileira para os Estados Unidos

UNIVERSIDADE DE HARVARD

18 e 19 de Março de 2005

 

O objetivo do Congresso Nacional sobre a Imigração Brasileira para os Estados Unidos é reunir acadêmicos, líderes comunitários, membros da comunidade brasileira e estudantes universitários para discutir o fenômeno da imigração brasileira aos Estados Unidos.

Os temas incluem, mas não estão limitados a: Saúde; Educação; Direitos dos Imigrantes; Bilingüismo e Comunicação Inter-cultural; Raça; Etnicidade e Gênero.

 

National Conference on Brazilian Immigration to the United States

Dates: March 18-19

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

  FRIDAY, MARCH 18TH

2:30 - 3:10 - REGISTRATION - Boylston Hall - Entry Way

3:10 - 4:40 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Cultural Expectations I - Boylston 103

Chair: José Inácio Werneck

José Inácio Werneck (ESPN):

With Hope in Their Heart: The Brazilian Immigrants in the United States

Rosangela Foitl (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University):

Quais as contribuições dos imigrantes brasileiros para a cultura Norte-Americana do ponto de vista dos brasileiros e dos americanos?

Iara Walsh:

The Pyschosocial Aspect in the Integration of Brazilian Immigrants in the American Culture

 

Education I - Boylston 104

Chair : Raquel A. Arouca

 

José Gurgel (Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata):

Benefits and Challenges of Bilingual Education for Immigrant Children

Raquel A. Arouca (University of Montana):

Bilingual's difficulties in communicating with monolinguals

M. Lou Nunes (Independent Researcer):

A importância e o aproveitamento de seus estudos na sociedade americana

 

 

Media- Boylston 105

Chair: TBA

Else Vieira (University of London - Queen Mary):

Brazilian Ethnic Press in the UK, US and Canada: a, comparative look

Renata Johnson (Missouri School of Journalism):

Role of Brazil's Largest Broadcasting Company, Globo Network, among Brazilians Living in North America

Steven S. Apostolov (Université de Paris VIII Saint Denis):

Sports and Brazilian Immigration to the US: the Case of Soccer

Danielli Lemos (Jornal A Notícia):

Retrato escrito atual de estruturação da comunidade brasileira na Nova Inglaterra

 

Workshops I and II

Boylston 403

Carlos Antonio Ferreira da Silva (Brazilian American Association Club of BRAMAS, America 24/7 Building Services, Brazilian Legal Movement, MAPS, Vice Chair Quincy Ward 2 Democratic Committee, Consulado Brasileiro de Boston):

Naturalized Brazilians in Search of a Political Voice in the United States

Rafaela Moura (ACCION USA):

ACCION USA

 

 

4:40 - 5:00 Coffee Break/Registration - Boylston Hall - Entry Way

5:00- 6:30 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Working Brazilians - Boylston 103

Chair : TBA

Thely Lopes (State University of New York - Albany):

The Transnational Practices in the Brazilian Restaurants of New York City

Rosilene Lino (FJB/UFSC):

Imigrantes brasileiros desempregados em Somerville, Massachusetts, EUA, transformam estacionamentos do Dunkin Donuts em ponto de oferta de mão-de-obra informal- Perfil Dos Imigrantes E Impactos Sociais na Cidade

Josh Kirshner (Cornell University):

A união tem força? A Comparative Study of Labor Union Outreach to Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Boston

Tiago Jansen and Carlos Eduardo Siqueira (UMASS- Lowell):

Brazilians Are Everywhere in New England

 

Cultural Expectations II - Boylston 104

Chair : TBA

Walter Cortez (Harvard University):

Estudo Comparativo dos Brasileiros que moram no Brasil e os que vieram para os Estados Unidos Depois de Setembro 11

Martin Haber (NYC Dept. of Education):

Cross Cultural Immigration Histories of Rio and New York

José Carlos Afonso & Daniel Varela Afonso (EpoCH -English Portuguese Cultural House):

Aspectos andragógicos do aprendizado do inglês: influência dos fatores psicosociais na habilidade em um novo idioma.

 

6: 30 - 7:00 - Coffee Break/ REGISTRATION - Boylston Ticknor Lounge

7:00 - 7:30 - OFFICIAL OPENING - Fong Auditorium - Boylston Hall

 

 

Opening remarks by Conference Chair, Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Harvard University

Conference Opening - Ambassador Roberto Abdenur (Presence to be Confirmed)

7:30 - 8:30 - Guest Speaker: Professor Maxine Margolis - University of Florida

 

Brazilian Immigration to the U.S.: Research & Issues for the New Millennium

Discussant: Leticia Braga - Ed.D. Candidate - Harvard University D

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH

8:00 - 8:30 - REGISTRATION/Coffee and Pastries

8:30 - 10:00 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Gender I - Boylston 103

Chair : Cileine de Lourenço

Judith McDonnell, Cileine de Lourenço (Bryant University):

Brazilian Immigrant Women Looking In and Looking Out: Race, Gender, Class and the Idea of Transnationalism

Branca Ribeiro (Lesley), Solange Lyra (Lesley), Márcia Guimarães(Harvard), Clémence Jouet-Pastre(Harvard):

Brazilian Immigrant Women: Conflicting Needs and Expectations in Clinical Settings

Suzana Maia (CUNY):

Becoming a Brazilian Dancer: Performing Seduction and National Identity

 

 

Religion - Boylston 104

Chair: Paul Freston

Romo Peterson Silva de Almeida (Pastor of Brazilian Church of the Bay Area):

O Conceito do Sagrado e o Processo Imigratório Association

Paul Freston (Calvin College):

Brazilian Churches in the United States and Other Locations of the Brazilian Diaspora

Megwen Loveless (Harvard) and Ana Nogueira (UMass Dartmouth):

Aquilo de que não se fala: Espiritismo e candomblé na comunidade brasileira

 

 

 

Workshops III and IV - Boylston 105

 

 

Kristina Rost

US Immigration: what does it take to visit, work, and live in the United States

Edel Holz:

Welcome to America!

 

10:00 - 10:30 - COFFEE BREAK - Ticknor Lounge

10:30- 12:00 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Race and Ethnicity - Boylston 105

Chair: Alan P. Marcus

Paula Botelho (University of Maryland):

Brazilians in the United States: Negotiating U.S. Culture, and Reconstructing Cultural and National Identities

Ana Ramos-Zayas (Rutgers University):

"Cultural Excess" and "Race Invisibility": Urban Performances and Latinidades among Brazilian Youth in

Newark, New Jersey

Alan P. Marcus (University of Massachusetts):

Brazilian in Framingham: Notions of Place and Ethnicity

Jason Stanyek (University of Richmond):

Consuming Braz/sil: Cultural Reception and the Sonic Construction of Diasporic Identities

 

Education II - Boylston 104

Chair: Heloísa Galvão

Ana Velasco:

Bilingual Schools

Heloísa Galvão (Grupo Mulher Brasileira, Boston Public Schools):

My experience in the United States: My hometown: is it there or here? Testimonies of Brazilian teenagers attending high schools in Massachusetts. The Brazilian community - A case study Grupo Mulher Brasileira

Ana Nogueira (UMass Dartmouth, Fall River Public Schools):

Bilingualism and Cross cultural communication Race/Ethnicity

 

 

Gender II - Boylston 103

Chair: Roseli Fischmann

Sabrena A. Kauffmann:

Masculine Hierarchy within the Americas: Gendered Affects on Brazilian Immigrants

Rosilene Lino (FJB/UFSC):

American Men Marrying Brazilian Women: Social Pressure and Law Limitations

Gláucia de Oliveira Assis (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina):

De Criciúma para o mundo: rearranjos familiares e de gênero nas vivências dos novos migrantes brasileiros.

 

 

Intercultural Performance: Brazilian Art and Experience in the United States" - Fong Auditorium

Chair: Antonio Luciano Tosta

Dário Borim (Umass-Dartmouth):

"Laurindo Almeida: The Music and the Mind of an Early Brazilian Immigrant in the United States."

Darién Davis ( Middlebury College):

"Before We Called This Place Home: Precursors of the Brazilians Community in the United States."

Antonio Luciano Tosta (Brown University):

"American Dream, Jeitinho Brasileiro: On the Crossroads of Cultural Identities in Brazuca Art."

Robert Moser (University of Georgia):

Zum-zum-zum and Other Representations of Capoeira's Jinga Through American Mainstream Culture

 

12:00- 1:15 - LUNCH - Ticknor Lounge

1:15- 2:45 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Oral History - Boylston 104

Chair: José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy (Universidade de São Paulo):

Discursos Brasileiros sobre New York: soluções narrativas e articulações temáticas

Maurício Barros de Castro (Universidade de São Paulo):

HISTÓRIA DE VIDA DE JOÃO GRANDE UM MESTRE DE CAPOEIRA ANGOLA EM NOVA YORK

Rosana Resende (University of Florida):

Testimony: One Man's Struggle to Stay

 

 

Brazilians across the US - Boylston 105

Chair: Cristina Mehrtens

Valéria Barbosa de Magalhães (Universidade de São Paulo):

História da Imigração Brasileira para o Sul da Flórida

Cristina Mehrtens (Umass- Dartmouth):

Lifting the Burden: The Imaginary and The Negotiations of Inclusion in the Lives of New Immigrant Communities in New Bedford

Ivson F. Surrusca (Universidade de São Paulo):

De estagiário a imigrante NYC e as artimanhas da sedução local

Peter Brown (Harvard):

Understanding Brazuca "Fragmentation:" A Qualitative Study of Brazilian Immigrants and their Community in Boston, MA

 

 

 

Intercultural Communication - Boylston 103

Chair: Kátia Ma. Santos Mota

Kátia Ma. Santos Mota (Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB):

Two languages in play: language boundaries in the speech of second generation Brazilian immigrants

Nilma Dominique (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain):

Comunicação intercultural e comunicação não verbal: os imigrantes brasileiros nos Estados Unidos

Letícia Braga & Clémence Jouët-Pastré (Harvard University):

Making the Brazilian Community Visible: Students' Perspectives Through Theory and Practice

Teresa Sales (Unicamp):

Brazilian-Latino Relations: Boston - Miami

 

 

Workshop V - Fong Auditorium - Boylston Hall

Jorge Costa, James Green, Cláudia Tamsky (AAPE - Associação de Amigos Petistas no Exterior):

Direitos Humanos e seu papel nas organizações públicas e privadas em defesa da comunidade brasileira

 

2:45- 3:00 - COFFEE BREAK - Ticknor Lounge - Boylston Hall

3:00- 4:30 - Concurrent Sessions

 

Transnational Ties - Boylston 103

Chair: Rosana Barbosa

Rosana Barbosa (Saint Mary's University):

The Other North American Destination: Brazilian Immigration to Canada

Leonardo Cavalcanti (Universidade de Salamanca):

Do outro lado do atlântico: Uma aproximação da imigração brasileira nos Estados Unidos com a presença dos brasileiros na Espanha

Sueli Siqueira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais):

Emigrantes da microrregião de Governador Valadares nos EUA: Projeto de Retorno

 

 

Political Organizing - Fong Auditorium - Boylston Hall

Round Table on Political Organizing of Brazilians in the US

Lidia Santos (Yale University; Member of the Coordinating Committee, Brazil Strategy Network/Rede Brasil)

Eryck Duran (Executive Director, Brazilian Rainbow Group, NYC; Member of the Coordinating Committee, Brazil Strategy Network/Rede Brasil)

Myriam Marques (Simpatizantes do PT nos EUA, New York; Member of the Coordinating Committee, Brazil Strategy Network/Rede Brasil)

Joceli Meyer (Brazilian Rainbow Group and Ubeny. The guidebook for Brazilian Immigrants

in the U.S.'])

Arnaldo Lulu (Membro da BSN, "Working with the Brazilian Community at Danbury, CT")

James N. (Green Brown University, National Co-Coordinator, BSN/Rede Brasil)

 

Workshops VI and VII - Boylston 105

Danuza Aquino (Star of Life Healing Center):

Holistic Therapies in the Brazilian community

Padre José Mário, Helena Kindi, Maria Pia Terra, Sonia Falcos:

Health in the Brazilian Community: Perspective of a Priest and Three Medical Interpreters

 

 

4:30 - 5:30- Guest Speaker: Fong Auditorium

Professor Bernadete Beserra - Universidade Federal do Ceará - Brazilian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Class, and Nation

 

5:30 - 6:30 - Closing Remarks: Fong Auditorium

Professor Carlos Eduardo Siqueira - UMASS-Lowell