Syrian refugees in the city of São Paulo: a study on place identity and place attachment

• Grant number: 19/11935-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2020
• End date: January 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Matheus Fernandes de Castro
• Grantee: Aline Sprengel de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify whether the Syrian refugees that live nowadays in São Paulo identify themselves with it and have attachment to the place. For this, it was done, initially, a contextualization of the subject starting from data theories of a review of the Environmental Psychology literature, in which we highlight authors such as Elali (2011), Cavalcanti (2011), Milligan (1998), Proshansky et al. (1983) and Bowlby (1992). Ten semi-open interviews will be held with these people, whose data will be compared with the theoretical reference, seeking to make a synthesis analytic analysis through the content analysis of Bardin (2006). It is expected, with this study, contribute, in some way, to the area of Environmental Psychology and to increase information that covers the field of knowledge about the link between immigrants and the place.