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buy canada goose jacket LISBON/SAO PAULO, March 14 (Reuters) Graduates canadian goose jacket scouring newspapers recruitment pages amid Portugal worst recession in memory are increasingly opting for the chance of a better life in the former colonies of Angola and Brazil.
Portugal flourished as a global power with explorers like Vasco da Gama and Pedro Alvares Cabral building an empire which lasted for 600 years. Now a new wave of adventurers is once again seeking work, and hopefully fortune, elsewhere.
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cheap Canada Goose Portugal was forced to take uk canada goose outlet a 78 billion euro bailout from the European Union canada goose coats on sale and IMF last year due canada goose uk black friday to its debt crisis, sparking its deepest recession since the transition to democracy in the 1970s the cheap canada goose uk last time there was a major wave of emigration, to other parts of Europe.
canada goose black friday sale In recent years, Portugal has been a magnet Canada Goose sale for immigrants from its former colonies and other African nations but as Lisbon struggles to navigate the turbulent straits of canada goose factory sale the Euro zone crisis, that trend has been reversed.
Emigrating is fast becoming a preferred Canada Goose Coats On Sale option for many seeking a decent living as their bailed out economy suffers under debt, low growth and poor Canada Goose Parka competitiveness. Portugal booming ex colonies in Africa and Brazil are a natural choice.
canada goose store Portugal unemployment is at a record 14 percent. For the young, joblessness is much worse, at 35 percent, and there is little hope for a sharp, Canada Goose Jackets job generating recovery any time soon.
Silva, is one of those who quit Portugal crisis and set off 14 months ago to Brazil, armed with his fish cake recipe.
canada goose coats on sale Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, mindful of the burden of rising unemployment benefits on efforts to cut spending and meet strict budget goals under the bailout, has encouraged the trend.
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canadian goose jacket Angola, and not just there, in Brazil as well, there is a great need for a trained workforce for primary and secondary education, he said, provoking criticism from the opposition.
Canada Goose Outlet ABROAD Joao Bentes, 26, an unemployed architect who just graduated, said he may have to turn his back on Portugal shores.
went to the job centre and they told me that given my qualifications as an architect, it would be very difficult to find anything in Portugal and buy canada goose jacket that the best thing to do is to look abroad, he said.
canada goose clearance sale canada goose coats sale Dina Paulista, 42, moved to Sao Paulo in Brazil last month after having failed to find a job as a photographic director for four years. prefer not to have to do it out of necessity, but this government leaves us no option than to leave the country.
Canada Goose Jackets As their need for skilled professionals rises, Angola and Brazil are drawing more and more young, educated Portuguese.
Brazil once buy canada goose jacket cheap experienced https://www.uscanadagooseoutletsale.com military dictatorship and years of boom or bust economy but in the past decade emerged as an economic powerhouse, one of the nations along with China, India and Russia, and passed a landmark recently overtaking Britain in the rankings of the world largest economies.
Thousands of Portuguese settlers fled Angola as it descended into civil war following the collapse of colonial rule, and thousands more Angolans followed during Canada Goose Online the years of violence. Peace and prosperity in Angola has reversed the trend.
Luanda, the capital of crude oil producer Angola, has become the world most expensive city for foreigners due to an oil boom which has a created a huge appetite for qualified workers.
Helena Rato, a researcher at Portugal National Administration Institute who canada goose studies emigration, said: who were left without contracts here canada goose uk outlet are going to Angola and Mozambique in their droves.
Canada Goose sale This has cheap Canada Goose spawned a new breed of skilled emigrant workers like nurses, engineers and architects.
available data show growing emigration from Portugal, especially trained specialists, which is different from what it used to be when poor and untrained people were mostly leaving, Rato said.
Portugal latest emigration data from the National Statistics Institute showed that the number of emigrants rose sharply by 40 percent in 2010 the year Portugal debt crisis started in earnest to 23,760 people to all destinations.
No detailed breakdowns were available.
canada goose coats The Brazilian embassy in Lisbon said the number of canada goose store Portuguese with work permits in Brazil alone jumped by 52,000 between 2010 and mid 2011, to 328,860 people.
canada goose clearance According to Portuguese media, the number of Portuguese in Angola more than quadrupled canada goose black friday sale in the past few years to more than 100,000, four times the number of Angolans living in Portugal. No official data was available for Portuguese living in Angola.
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The independence of its wealthiest colony of Brazil in canada goose coats 1822, damaged Portugal wealth and status.
Canada Goose online There have been periodic waves of immigration since then. canada goose clearance sale Celina Canada Goose online Nunes, 59, emigrated 36 years ago because her uncle was already living there. There was an especially big wave in the 1950s when Brazil started a programme for immigration to build up its industry.