"Andar pelo mundo" e "morar no sítio": migração, trabalho e territorialidade de famílias de agricultores do sertão paraibano.

Abstract

This thesis is about the territorial mobility of small farmers families and migrant workers from Sertão Paraibano as making of their conditions of social reproduction and social differentiation as well as the processes of transformation of the territories throughout they circulate. In this sense it has tried to understand the changes in the Sugarcane Mills and its effects over such families; it has tried understand the changes in the rural areas of Sertão da Paraíba in the last 30 years; and to analise the experience of migration in different generations of small farmers and migrants workers. It is a qualitative research that seeks to combine different approach such as etnographic, oral history and secondary data, in a synchronic and diachronic perspective. As findings of this research it is observed that the territorial transformations in recent decades coexist with the diversity of land access situations and work of families farmers.