Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the context of international displacement, since 2010 Brazil has become one of the main destinations for Haitian immigration.With a historical tradition of international immigration, the Haitian migratory flow inserts Brazil in the scenario of contemporary migrations, which, driven by the globalized market movement, turn to previously unusual routes.In these circumstances, the city of Brusque, the gateway to the Vale Europeu in Santa Catarina, becomes one of the destinations for Haitians, starting in 2013.The city, with its rates of full employment and quality of life, decade as the one that received the most migrants in the state, is marked by its history linked to the international immigration of the end of the nineteenth century, on which stands a speech of extolling the figure of the foreign immigrant.The present work results from the research carried out among the subjects that form the Haitian community in the city of Brusque, from their life stories, collected through the methods of Oral History.With the mediation of authors pertinent to the themes, it is intended to approach Haitian immigration from the emigration environment, Haiti itself, tracing its route from the narratives that imply all the way that brought them as destination to the city of Brusque, looking for understand the transposition of the physical and symbolic borders present in this process.
Author: Meire Anne Hoeppers Ruiz
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3107629215