Theoretical and conceptual preparation for the study of foreignization of land in Paraguay

• Grant number: 16/19533-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: January 23, 2017
• End date: June 22, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes
• Grantee: Lorena Izá Pereira
• Supervisor: Saturnino Borras
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/07057-3 - Brasilian and argentina presence in the acquisition of land in Paraguay: impacts and resistences, BP.MS

Abstract

The process of foreignization of land in Paraguay is not recent, intensifying as from 2007/2008 and emerging different peculiarities in relation to other countries. Simultaneously to the increase of land appropriation in worldwide scale appear different researches and publications about the theme, without a consensus as regards of this process, because every researcher and multilateral/governmental institution define the elements of foreignization of land according to its intentionality. In this meaning, the general objective of this project is to analyze the process of foreignization of land in Paraguay through the definitions of different authors and institutions, overcoat of Santurnino M. Borras Jr., main reference in the theme, to comprehend the singularities of the country and to construct an appropriate definition of the affected reality.