New World Welcomes Autor: Jagoda Radoji Ana Ferreira oozes optimism.

She is twenty six, comes rom the Azores and or a!most our years now has "een "ased in A rica, irst in Ango!a, now in #ozam"i$ue. %ontrary to what cou!d "e expected, she is not a &o!unteer "ut a paid emp!oyee at a corporate human resources department. '(hen ) !oo* at my riends in +ortuga!, !i&ing on student grants, doing short,term jo"s, comp!eting successi&e graduate or postgraduate courses, ) thin* they are detached rom rea! !i e. ) !i&e in #aputo where )-m doing great and actua!!y ad&ancing career,wise. (hat am ) supposed to "e returning to./ 0on1a!o Jorge, a twenty,eight year o!d mar*eting executi&e rom 2is"on, ought not or wor* "ut against rustration. A ter o"taining his degree, he got a jo" with a pu"!ic transport company. ') wanted to do great things "ut a!! that was waiting or me was a sinecure/, he says. (hen he ina!!y ound an interesting opening at a pri&ate company, it was the terms o emp!oyment, with a contract or just a year, that pro&ed a pro"!em. So he mo&ed to Ango!a and today is country manager or a +ortuguese wine producer. 3e is responsi"!e or the company-s entire operations in Ango!a and earns our times what he did in +ortuga!. +ortuga! has a!ready !ost one in ten o its uni&ersity graduates. 4he exodus has continued or se&era! years now "ecause the crisis and high unemp!oyment hit the country much ear!ier than the rest o 5urope. 6outh unemp!oyment in +ortuga! is at o&er 78 percent today and in Spain at o&er 9: percent. ) it weren-t or emigration, it wou!d "e much higher. 4hose made redundant in 5urope ; engineers, architects, construction wor*ers ; are recei&ed with open arms in A rica and South America. <razi! is at u!! steam preparing or the =:>8 (or!d %up and =:>? @!ympic games. 5ngineers and architects are "eing recruited on a great sca!e or pu"!ic projects, inc!uding A=:: "i!!ion,worth projects in the power industry. <razi!-s economy grew "y near!y 7 percent !ast year. Argentina saw B percent growth and its unemp!oyment rate at C percent is more than three times !ower than Spain-s. Rich in oi!, diamonds and other natura! resources, Ango!a is one o the astest growing countries in the wor!d today. Annua! 0D+ growth reaches >9 percent here and 7,::: +ortuguese companies operate throughout the country, "ui!ding roads, "ridges, s*yscrapers, rai!roads, pipe!ines. 4he country, or thirty years ra&aged "y a ci&i! war that ended just a decade ago, is short o specia!ists, whi!e +ortuga! su ers rom a surp!us o s*i!!ed !a"our. 'For some years ago jo" o ers rom Ango!a can "e ound in e&ery +ortuguese newspaper,/ says +edro 0Eis, migration socio!ogist at the Fni&ersity o %oim"ra. '4wo groups are primari!y !ea&ing: o!der peop!e who want to sa&e some money, and young ones see*ing pro essiona! de&e!opment and un./ ) the +ortuguese ee! at home in Ango!a, it-s e&en easier or them to adapt to !i e in <razi!. According to estimates "y 2is"on-s @"ser&atErio da )migra1o, o&er C::,::: emigrants rom +ortuga! current!y !i&e and wor* in <razi!. )n Spain, which or the !ast ten years recei&ed some 9 mi!!ion immigrants rom South America, A rica and Asia, Spanish emigration to the ormer co!onies in South America is a su"ject so new ew experts are a"!e to discuss it. <ut the igures spea*

or themse!&esG according to Spanish consu!ates in Argentina, some >,=:: Spaniards sett!e there e&ery month. '4he typica! emigrant is a man aged =9,79, o ten an engineer, architect or )4 pro essiona!/, says #arta 2Epez,4appero, internationa! mo"i!ity expert at Adecco. ')n "rie , a young man with an appetite or new experiences and cha!!enges./ )n the ormer co!onies the !anguage "arrier doesn-t exist and cu!tura! adaptation is smooth. 5specia!!y in <uenos Aires. At the turn o the >Hth and =:th centuries, some = mi!!ion Spaniards came to Argentina as third,c!ass passengers, main!y rom 0a!icia, the country-s poorest, arming region, which is why Spaniards are ca!!ed ga!!egos in Argentina today. )n the second ha! o the =:th century, irst the dictatorship and then the crisis o the >HH:s "rought Argentinians to 5urope. Iow the trend has re&ersed again. A '5uropean in&asion/, 'new 5!dorado/, 'thri!!,see*ing expedition/ ; such concepts are ami!iar and must sound distur"ing!y to the 5uropean ear. 'Io, there-s no reason to ta!* a"out another co!onisation,/ #r 0Eis says irm!y. 'Rather, we are witnessing the "irth o a new g!o"a! c!ass o migrants who wi!! ne&er sett!e permanent!y anywhere. Sooner or !ater, they wi!! either go "ac* or mo&e to another country where the o er wi!! "e "etter/. <ut perhaps the re&ersed migration is the conse$uence o much more pro ound changes ta*ing p!ace in the wor!d. 4he "a!ance o power "etween the (est and the rest o the wor!d or, i you wi!!, "etween Iorth and South, is shi ting.