IOM warns of sexual stereotypes about Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal | Immigration

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned this Tuesday that a sexual stereotype still persists about Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal, in a report that also highlights the high number of Portuguese emigrant men.

In the 2024 World Migration Report, the United Nations structure addressed global migration trends and highlighted that “stereotypes of women’s hypersexuality in destination countries have also affected migrant women, such as Venezuelans in Peru and Brazilians in Portugal, stigmatizing them.” them as prostitutes and leading to increased risks of suffering sexual harassment and gender-based violence”.

In a report that includes almost all countries in the world, the IOM also recalled the impact that the covid-19 pandemic had on the migration process. The pandemic “led some countries to take exceptional measures to respond to the increased needs of migrants in an irregular situation”, can be read in the report, which highlights the fact that Portugal acted quickly, “temporarily regularizing the status of all migrants” .

Italy would later follow the Portuguese example, with “specific regularization for migrant workers in key sectors of the economy”.

In the report published this Tuesday, the IOM highlights that Portugal was among the 20 countries with the highest relative number of emigrants in 1995, a figure that decreased in 2020, according to the authorities’ accounting.

Regarding the type of emigration, Italy and Portugal are the two European countries that have more male emigrants than females, according to the IOM.