Travessias de horizontes múltiplos: migração venezuelana em Campina Grande.

Abstract

Contemporary international forced migrations and their implications underscore our interdependence as subjects as well as countries. Within the scope of transnational migrations, the increase in the migratory flow of Venezuelans to Brazil due to the political, social and economic crisis in Venezuela has generated complex and multidimensional debates on this topic. In this dissertation we seek to understand the dynamics of this migratory experience, its subjectivities and path interactions, as well as the demands and directions that may emerge from this social reality. More specifically, we propose to analyze the narratives of Venezuelans who migrated to Campina Grande-PB, to identify and scrutinize the field of research, aiming to understand how all the characteristics, paths, experiences and narratives that these migrants carry can influence interactions and local integration processes. Connecting the paths of the theories that we propose to discuss and the paths that will be unveiled by the empirical, we also seek to identify the social stigmas and how they interfere in the social relations established by these migrants. This research has a qualitative character and fits into the Culture and Identities research line. In an analysis dialogue between social discourses and what ethnography points out, this dissertation sets out to investigate, analyze and discuss transnational immigration to the interior of Paraíba, a region previously permeated by intense exodus and emigration. From the analysis carried out in this research, we conclude (1) that the origin of the migrant influences their migratory experiences, (2) that migrants are stigmatized and this interferes in their daily lives in Campina Grande-PB, (3) that indigenous migrants have greater difficulty of interaction and integration, (4) that the narratives, experiences and characteristics that these migrants carry influence their interactions and integration in the city, showing a categorization by several local social groups.