We were “Bossa Nova”. Today we are sin pa- peles: transnationalism, belonging and identity in Brazilian migrants representations in Spain

Abstract

This work is a reflection on the after-
modern condition of the new Brazilian migrantes to
the Spanish cities, breaking of a case study the Bra-
zilians in the capital of Spain. The quarrel on trans-
nacionalism and marginality, the processes and the
directions of belonging, the new politics and ideo-
logies of representations and the migratory flows are
boarded from the analysis of the proper process of
Brazilian immigration in Madrid. The concern big-
gest, therefore, is to argue an ethnicity flowed since
a central axle – cultural memory and transnational
identity – being observed the representations of the
Brazilians in Spain in its new migratory flows. The
article still intends to trace a reflection on the ques-
tion contemporary of the establishment of series of
differences and landmarks, the multiculturalism as
a modern idea in the Europe and the influences for
the emigrated ones from Brazil. The question of the
just-discovery Latin American identity next to the
new migratory exodus, the relation with the investi-
ture country and the cultural homesicknesses.