Safety concerns at home in Rio de Janeiro and a bumper pay packet convinced Bruno Ribeiro to join the burgeoning ranks of Latin Americans moving to California to work in information technology (IT). Software engineer Ribeiro used to work remotely and had no intention of emigrating, but a harrowing incident changed his mind. “It was one night that my wife and I witnessed four robberies. We didn’t want to see that violence so close to our children,” he said from his home in Los Angeles, where he works for entertainment giant Disney. In Latin America, like elsewhere, demand for software en...