Palestinian Brazilian

Palestinian Brazilians (Portuguese: Palestino-brasileiro; Arabic: فلسطينيو البرازيل, romanized: Filasṭīnīyū al-Barāzīl) are Brazilian people with Palestinian ancestry, or Palestinian-born immigrants in Brazil.

The starting point for the Palestinian exodus process to Brazil is the year 1948, with the Nakba, the expulsion that occurred after the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war that subsequently began.

The choice to use Israeli or Jordanian documents gave immigrants a certain independence of travel and citizenship, since Palestinian refugee status would not guarantee them the benefits of belonging to a national state, in addition to the precarious conditions of refugee camps.

It is estimated that 60,000 Palestinian immigrants and refugees, including their descendants, live in the country, the majority of them in São Paulo, according to a survey by the Arab-Palestinian Federation of Brazil (Fepal).

These requests are still awaiting a decision from the Brazilian National Committee for Refugees (Conare).

Greater Porto Alegre received many Palestinian refugees