\"Contar com nosotros\": uma análise sobre a participação cívica dos migrantes da comunidade boliviana na cidade de São Paulo
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This paper aims to reflect on the profile of civic participation of the Bolivian community in the city of São Paulo from the perspective of its leaders, in order to gauge their full inclusion in society.Given that the migrant condition is marked by several contradictions that hinder their full social inclusion in the countries, since their figure is neither foreseen nor required in the new social body of destination, we are interested in evaluating their model of civil associations as the first form of recognition and legitimation of belonging and rights.Thus, the civic participation profile of the migrant figure is investigated mainly from the perspective of social capital theories as a parameter of civil associativism, against the background of the Badioudian theory of inclusion and belonging.The study method is characterized by being exploratory, qualitative approach, with primary data collection, conducted through interviews with non-probabilistic sample and categorical content analysis.Three leaders from the Bolivian community were interviewed, one from the government and one from a civil organization welcoming the migrant in person and by telephone.As main results, the contradictions present in Sayad's theories about the social condition of the migrant were verified, regarding the problems related to work and political neutrality, especially regarding the demobilization for the non-voting rights.Through group articulations, which give strength and echo more distant voices that alone would not have social strength, it was found that the Bolivian migrant community actively participates in the political scenario of the city of São Paulo despite facing several challenges for a de facto civic participation in the city, such as the current political context, which acts as a voice silencer and with the removal of spaces; the structural questions about the formalization of community-adhering media and the stereotype about the migrant subject who seeks to delegitimize him / her in the social civic arena.
Author: Nayara Costa Nogueira
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2998023738