Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue -- Introduction / Szilvia Simai and Derek Hook -- Three Fantasies of Nation / Szilvia Simai -- Foreigner-Gringo-Brazilian: Proximity and distance between Brazilians and non-Brazilians / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette -- The National Myth of Receptivity in Brazil: The Denial of Xenophobia in Contemporary Society / Rosana Baeninger and Szilvia Simai -- The reinvention of Brazil and other metamorphoses in the world of Chicago Samba / Bernadete Beserra -- Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other: Gender, race and Brazilian identity abroad / Claudia Barcellos Rezende -- Subjective assessments of work opportunities by Brazilian women living in Rome / Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa -- "Brazilianness" in London: national goods and images in transnational mobility / Simone Frangella.