Entre o bagaço da cana e a doçura do mel: migrações e as identidades da juventude rural.

Abstract

In this work, I have analyzed the migration of the rural youth from the municipality of Tavares in the State of Paraiba to the sugar cane region in the Ribeirão Preto Region in the State of São Paulo. Three aspects are taken into consideration, first, the search for autonomy in the construction of youth and gender identities; second, the access to income as a possibility to gain consumptions goods and third, the invention and new meanings of the sociability and leisure spaces in the municipality by migrant youth known as canistas (name attributed to those who work in the sugar cane agriculture) I will use the concepts of Habitus from Pierre Bourdieu and Experience from Edward Thompson to understand both the social and cultural generative principies of the group and its subjectivities. Methodologically, I rely on some trajectories to understand the youth workers knows as canistas and to interpret the experience of the migration in me construction of identities and life projects. In this sense, I will look at one of the many faces of rural youth in order to understand the formation of their identities and position in the present public policies.