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| Author(s): |
Ana Cecilia Andrade de Moraes Weintraub
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) |
| Defense date: | 2012-09-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria da Penha Costa Vasconcellos;
Jose Guilherme Cantor Magnani;
Miriam Debieux Rosa
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| Advisor: | Maria da Penha Costa Vasconcellos |
| Abstract | |
This study aims to comprehend how immigrant women build, in the space of the city of São Paulo, their interpersonal relationships, their negotiations with the institutions they have to deal with, their support and social networks, resulting in a new way of living their lives. Starting from a contact with one of the religious institutions that offers shelter to foreign women in São Paulo, five inhabitants of this house were met and followed on their routine activities around the city. Those women were three asylum seekers, one economic migrant and one ex-prisoner. This proposal made possible the construction of an ethnography and a participant observation of the itineraries undertaken by them in the city. Those itineraries undertaken by them and followed by this study showed different strategies and social relationships made by those women in the city. In general, the itineraries showed that, by being women and foreigners, their transitional relationship with the city was crossed by the people they meet, their work, their leisure activities and the institutions that were willing to help them. In spite of those interactions, the ones that seem to be more able to offer a significant help to them are the relationships outside the scope of those institutions, meaning the social networks built and the interactions with the accessible and accessed spaces in the city. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/13266-0 - Itineraries crossed by migrant women in São Paulo: building life in the city |
| Grantee: | Ana Cecilia Andrade de Moraes Weintraub |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |