Discrimination against Brazilian student immigrants in Coimbra, Portugal

Absztrakt (kivonat)

In this paper, the aim is to find out whether Brazilian students are negatively discriminated or have to face difficulties in any way in Portugal due to their nationality. Surveys have been completed by Brazilian students in order to obtain an overall picture regarding their experience of treatment towards whilst living temporarily in Portugal. After the surveys, an analysis is completed to see how often and in which way did the respondents’ experience the different treatment compared to the Portuguese inhabitants. The main findings in the survey are that the Brazilian students are discriminated, mostly in the city during their everyday activities. In the school area, the discriminiation happens on a lower level, there are some cases when the students experienced a negative attitude towards their nationality, but mainly it happens outside of the university area. They did not have any experience of agressive physical behaviour because of being a Brazilian, most of the times they only experience a general negative attitude towards them, with unpolite way of speaking or behaviour. The discrimination is higher against the Brazilian immigrants than towards immigrants from other countries. It is important to highlight, the surveys were made with high education students from a middle or higher social class, most of them speaks English.