The Popularity of Anti-Immigration Discourse Among Brazilian Immigrants in the United States of America

This research seeks to understand the anti-immigration discourse among Brazilian immigrants in the United States of America. The analysis of the material and formal conditions of anti-immigration discourse must be approached from the perspective of a social phenomenon that recurs across various Latino immigrant communities. The notions of the "other" and the "self" that inhabit the immigrant imaginary are central to the investigation, as they help explain decision-making processes that lead heterogeneous groups of people to reproduce similar behaviors. At the factual level, the study examines the early actions of Donald Trump's second administration, its relationship to state policies on deportation, and the hate speech that reinforces negative stereotypes about Latinos living in the United States. The research adopts a deductive methodological approach, beginning with general observations about the sample population. The preliminary results thus far are linked to the formulation of a research hypothesis that remains in its early stages. To conduct the study, multidisciplinary bibliographic sources from various fields of the social sciences were used.