THE IMPACT OF HIGH IMMIGRATION INFLOW RATE ON THE SHIFT OF BRAZIL'S IMMIGRATION POLICY 2015-2017
Abstract
Brazil is a developing country that has one of the most rapid
economic growths in this decade. As a country with an
emerging market, it is natural for the government to create
policies based on the development itself. Catering the interest
of economic development, Brazil took a big step by creating
an open immigration law proposal in 2013, which is called
senator bill 288/2013. It was a stepping-stone for Brazil as an
open country for the immigrants and refugees. Brazil did this
to recruit high-qualified immigrants and boost its economy.
However, two years before the ratification in May 2017,
Brazil experienced a high inflow of immigration rate. This
phenomenon brought series of problems in Brazil as Brazil
plunged into the worst economic recession in its history.
When the new immigration law was ratified and released in
late 2017, the government decided to scrap sixteen critical
articles and items within the proposal before ratification.
Thus, defeating the purpose of open immigration law. The
purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of high
immigration inflow rate in Brazil to the shift of Brazil's new
immigration before the ratification.