This paper aims to provide an overview of the presence of Chinese in Brazil, who are estimatedto be about 300,000 in number. Based on the dialectical relationship between Brazil andChina, this research works with the following hypotheses, which are also the lines ofproblematization: China expels; Brazil receives; Sino-Brazilians emerge (the synthesis of theprocess). The methodology consisted initially of bibliographical research. Later on, secondarydata was collected from the Museu da Imigração in São Paulo. The bulk of the empiricalmaterial consists of interviews with five Chinese individuals, providing qualitative data, atranscription and an analysis (application of questionnaires). In addition, a photographic anddocumentary survey of the Chinese presence in São Paulo at specific points in the city wascarried out. The research began in 2003, and the fieldwork and interviews were carried out in2006. After this period, the author studied Asian-Brazilian communication in social networks.An analysis of all the materials was then made. For the concept of diaspora, references fromStuart Hall and Adam McKeown were used. In the socioeconomic analysis, the Marxian concept”industrial reserve army” accounts for the presence of large population contingents movingaround the world. The pull and push mechanism between populations and territories is aconstruct used by Paul Singer and Herbert Klein to explain population movement. Regardingthe construction of a Brazilian identity that would also include Asians and their descendants,the works of Jeffrey Lesser are worth mentioning. Concerning the insertion of the Chinese intoBrazilian society, the theories by Sigmund Freud and Eric Hobsbawn were used. Brazil, due tothe development of its market, has become a pole of attraction for people from all over theworld, including the Chinese. As the interviewees said, Brazil is seen as a country “underconstruction”. And today the Chinese have a place in the construction of a Brazilian identity.