O Brasil na rota das migrações internacionais qualificadas espanholas no século XXI

In order to understand recent migration, it is crucial to analyze the migratory modalities such as skilled international migration to Brazil, especially considering the ongoing transnational economic processes and their effects on the corresponding societies. Therefore, this article seeks to understand how the migratory dynamics of highly skilled Spanish professionals to the country are established taking into account the theoretical contribution of the circulation of brains and the category of knowledge workers. For this purpose, information from Brazilian?s Ministry of Labor is used on labor authorizations, financial contributions and insertion in the formal market in Spain; as well as data on Spanish emigration from Spain?s National Statistical Institute. This study pointed to the increase and heterogeneity in the work records of skilled Spaniards in Brazil and the concentration of these in the state of São Paulo, although with a greater dispersion in recent years