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| Author(s): |
Vanessa Generoso Paes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2011-11-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy;
Zilda Marcia Gricoli Iokoi;
Samira Adel Osman
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| Advisor: | Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation examines the question of Latin American emigration movements through life history interviews from a single family of Bolivian residents living in São Paulo and its affective social network. In addition, thematic oral history interviews with Bolivian intellectuals are analyzed. As a result of its use of two kinds of oral history interviewing methodologies, this dissertation contributes to contemporary migration studies. The central themes of this research are the negotiation of identities between the first and second generations of the family chosen for this study, and the mediation of the identities of Bolivian immigrants within Brazilian society. The identities and life trajectories of the narrators are perceived as heterogeneous, in process, in transit, and articulated by zones of contact and cultural exchanges. Recorded narrations reveal fields of conflict, and show diversity, ambiguity, and silences. Thus, we find that narrators memories are re-elaborated and go through a process of cultural appropriation as they cross borders and are dislocated within the Latin American continent. (AU) | |