Migrantes bolivianos em São Paulo: um território “entre-lugar” de pertencimentos velhos e novos

Abstract

This master’s dissertation discuss the migration process on which many Bolivian families have been through that, searching for a job, migrate to Brazil, particularly to São Paulo State, gaining notoriety on the São Paulo population daily routine from the 1990’. On the migratory flow discussion, the elements that cause migration are emphasized, such as repulsion and attraction, located in Bolivia and Brazil respectively. Such elements, when connected to the development cycle experienced in Brazil on the early 2000’s, build a migratory path between the two countries and, moving in this path Bolivians leave their marks on the space, however taking part of this phenomenon requires des-re-territorialisations of the immigrant. Formation of a new space, which is not the starting space or the space of arrival is between-place. It is also discussed, through interviews and literature review, how those people are organized in Brazil, how they (re) arrange their spaces so the homesickness could be smallest and the labour less strenuous. Thereby, the reconfiguration of the working, living and leisure spaces end up contributing to the migrant to build in Brazil a new dwelling that gradually go from temporary to permanent. Those created territorialities are the basis so the migrants begin to engage with the social, economic and institutional structures of the arrival place becoming the territory to a “used territory”, configuration on determining the territories senses.