Sobre a mobilidade internacional de trabalhadores qualificados

Brasil no foco do Quebec

Abstract

Currently the importation of skilled foreign workers has proven to be a strategy for economic growth, both in the developed and in the less developed countries. Following such global tendencies of attracting qualified immigrants for the sought aft er establishment of a knowledge society, the Canadian province of Quebec set up in 2008 a Bureau of Immigration in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo. The Bureau's main objective is to attract qualified Brazilian professionals to work, live and become Canadian citizens. Quebec's interest for Brazilian qualified workers and the establishment of its Bureau of Immigration in Brazil insert the country's nationals into the international skilled labor network.