| Group: | Bolivians in Brazil Boliviano Brasileiros Bolivianos en Brasil |
| Population: | 350,000 [1] |
| Popplace: | Brazil Mainly Southeastern Brazil |
| Langs: | Bolivian Spanish Portuguese Minority: Guaraní Aymará possibly other Amerindian languages as Quechua |
| Rels: | Mostly Roman Catholicism and Folk religions. |
| Related: | Bolivians other Brazilian, Spanish, Hispanic and Hispanophone people |
Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil have begun to develop an agreement to regularize the situation of several thousand undocumented Bolivian immigrants in Brazil.[2] According to estimates by the Ministry's of Latin American immigrants and the National Association of Immigrants from Brazil more than 200,000 Bolivians are working illegally in São Paulo.[3] [4]
Nowadays, the Bolivians constitute the biggest group of foreigners living in the country, with an estimated 350,000 Bolivian nationals currently living in Brazil.[5]
Bolivians started coming to Brazil in small numbers during the 1950s, with current levels of immigration beginning in the 1980s. The numbers vary according to the source, but it is a fact that the information given by the media is very different from academic and official estimates.[6]
About 40% of Bolivians go to the city of São Paulo, around 10% of Bolivians go to the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the border cities of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul) and Guajará-Mirim (Rondônia) receive about 5% of the total each.[7] Ethnographic reports have found that Bolivians in Corumbá are regularly subject to racial discrimination.[8]