Since before Brazil's independence, the figure of the "Brasileiro" has occupied an important place in Portuguese literature, fictional and non-fictional. And the qualification has always entailed the idea of an intermediate nature between two worlds. In the space of the Atlantic monarchy there were no Portuguese and Brazilians, but there were very distinct territories, and the name "Brasileiro" meant the Portuguese who went to live in Brazil and then returned, or not, to the kingdom. In the 19th century, the maintenance and renewal of this migratory circuit was consolidated in a post-colonial international context between two independent countries. Especially in the second half of the century, the significant increase in the flow of people ...