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Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) (English: Length-of-Service Guarantee Fund) [1] is a fund created to protect workers in Brazil dismissed without just cause.By opening an account linked to the employment contract, employers deposit in accounts opened at the Caixa Econômica Federal, at the beginning of each month and in the name of the employees, the amount corresponding to 8% of ...
from the word "zumbi", first recorded in 1819 in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey. [42] This word is given West African origin by the Oxford English Dictionary, and was incorporated into the Portuguese language by interaction with enslaved Africans in Brazil.
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, [5] being widely spoken by nearly all of its population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.
Brazil has a number of different unemployment systems that could help those who have just lost their jobs. First, Brazil has a system called FGTS, Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviço(Time of service guarantee fund), which enables a set of funds to be retrieved from companies and then given to Caixa Econômica Federal, [ 1 ] one of Brazil's ...
Brazilian Quilombolas during a meeting in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. A Quilombo in Amapá. A quilombo (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ); from the Kimbundu word kilombo, lit. ' war camp ') [1] is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali.
In comparison, only 5.1% of the Japanese immigrants arrived alone to Brazil. The Japanese kept a strong familiar connection when they immigrated to Brazil, with the largest numbers of family members, comprising 5.3 people, followed by Spaniards, with similar figures. The families of Italian origin included lower number of members, at 4.1.
On the other hand, the Estado Novo sought a national identity for the first time in Brazil's history. The concept of "cultural anthropophagy" manifested by the Modern Art Week in São Paulo in 1922 was expanded during the Estado Novo through SPHAN , an institution planned by Mário de Andrade and with intellectual collaborators such as Carlos ...
Dekasegi (Portuguese: decassegui, decasségui, , [dekɐˈsɛgi]) is a term that is used in Latin America to refer to people, primarily Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Peruvians, who have migrated to Japan, having taken advantage of Japanese citizenship or nisei visa and immigration laws to work short-term in Japan.