Brazilian Australians
ethnic group; Australians of Brazilian ancestry
Brazilian Australians (Portuguese: Brasileiro-Australiano) refers to Australian citizens of Brazilian birth or descent.
According to the 2021 Census, 46,720 people in Australia were born in Brazil while 24,377 claimed Brazilian ancestry.
According to the Brazilian consulate, almost 60,000 Brazilians are living in Australia as of 2020 (making around 0.25% of the country's population).
Brazilian immigration
Although Brazilian migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth and centuries has not been documented, there is evidence of early Brazilian interest in Australia. However, concrete evidence of a Brazilian presence in Australia does not appear until the turn of the twentieth century, when census officials in 1901 counted 105 Brazilian-born in Australia.
Two waves of immigration
The first Brazilian migrants began arriving in Australia in the mid-1970s. They were attracted to Australia by an Australian government assistance scheme. The second wave of migration began in the late 1990s and continues today. It is widely attributed to growing socio-economic power within Brazil since the 1980s and Brazilians’ strong desire to learn English. Australia
has become the third most popular destination for Brazilians to learn English after the United States and England.
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