Human displacements: narratives and representations, Brazil 19th to 21st century

• Grant number: 18/10053-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: January 01, 2021 - March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro
• Grantee: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Adriana Marcolini ; Brigitte Grossmann Cairus ; Cristina de Lourdes Pellegrino Feres ; Dolores Martin Rodriguez Corner ; Elis Regina Barbosa Angelo ; Elisabetta Santoro ; Érica Sarmiento da Silva ; Federico Croci ; Giliola Maggio ; Luigi Biondi ; Marilia Dalva Klaumann Canovas ; Mirian Silva Rossi ; Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/07525-0 - Human Displacements: narratives and representations - Brazil 19th to 21st centuries, BP.TT; 21/04687-7 - Human Displacements: narratives and representations - Brazil 19th to 21st centuries, BP.TT; 21/03085-3 - Human Displacements: narratives and representations - Brazil 19th to 21st centuries, BP.TT

Abstract

This project addresses the multiple interfaces that characterize the mobility of ethnic groups who settled in Brazil and Brazilians who left the country toward other territories. Involving social, cultural, linguistic-discursive, political and economic processes, the range of these flows arouses a strong impact on the lives of these groups and on the affected nations, that does not always leave unharmed of this crossing. Since colonization, comprising slavery, transoceanic and continental migration, past or present flows of different ethnic groups who moved to Brazil take place in a broader and multiform context which embraces values and distinct elements. Such complexity, peculiar to human displacements, shapes this research project, which addresses the various faces of migration under multiple approaches and covers relevant issues to the understanding of our identity formation and of Brazil today. Guided by the ethnic, social and cultural memory preservation of migrations, the project relies on the participation and commitment of specialists in several areas of knowledge who share all sorts of oral, imagistic content and written sources, producing a broad and diverse corpus of documents. The heterogeneous range of research, transiting through history, sociology, anthropology, literature and arts, among other areas, promotes an exchange of experiences, integration of disciplines in the same project and a collective construction of a multi and interdisciplinary approach. (AU)