“No soy de aqui, ni de allí. Yo soy!”: identidade territorial na fronteira entre Pedro Juan Caballero - Paraguai e Ponta Porã - Brasil

Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss the territorial identity at the border between the towns of Pedro Juan Caballero-Ponta Porã-Brazil and Paraguay, advantage of the idea of identity as a cultural construction-were analyzed for this territorial subjects transiting between the two cities and maintain their relations and anchored in two territorial referential belonging. The work also seeks to show the multiple identities that coexist in this border, in addition to showing the approaches and distances in space. Tell the border from the guys here reside in and with the movement, are trademarks of research. Were interviewed subjects of ages, ethnicities, different social conditions, besides professionals in charge of the institutions responsible for the relevant research areas, as well as hikers and passerby unnoticeable in the eyes of many. It was noticed that with this traffic between the territory and other claimed identities, refuses or negotiates, identities are constructed and if (des) build, also the border area creates multiple identities, that coexist simultaneously in different time in the same space, but in multiple territories, one in particular that will be dealt with here is the cross-border identity, reverberating in the creation of a cross-border group calling themselves "brasiguaios".