Imigração sírio-libanesa em Campo Grande e o Clube Libanês

Abstract

This study had as aim to verify, in the economic and social cultural process, the adaptation of the immigrant Syrian-Lebanese group in the city of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State. The research had its starting point in the Register Office Santos Pereira, from the year of 1906, that the birth documents of a daughter of the first Lebanese family. The study is an attempt to understand the main social, cultural and economic transformations, lived by generations of these immigrants, in the period f 1906 to 2009. It had tried to notice the processes of integration, the transmission of uses and standard costums of hospitality and the integration to the new nationality and the cultural dialogues resulted from the immigration. It implied in investigating, in the multiple and complex environment, cohabitated by distinct cultures, the degree of welcoming and openness, provided in the reception to these immigrants, since the foundation of Clube Libanês of Campo Grande –at that time, still Mato Grosso State in1951.So that, it was relevant to know the historical and social context that provoked the emigration. It is a question of a documental fundamentally research, in the Register Offices in minutes and documents of Clube Libanês. At the same time, this research was exploited by interviews to arab immigrants and their decendents, such contribution, through evidences and narratives, it constituted of extreme importance to the achieving this work. It had noticed that the reality of the entire immigrant is marked by meetings and not meetings. The results of the research point alterations that have been introduced during the time in function of several factors, among them, the contact with the Brazilian standards; the different West life rhythm with reference to the East; the geographic distances and the available time. Furthermore, the life style and the values had changed along the time, becoming hybrid. The arab immigrants are, at the same time Brazilians and Syrian-Lebanese. However, even that inserted in the Brazilian society, the arabic people kept and reforced the conscience of the group through the family, the church, the Clube Libanês with their rituals and social festivities and ethnic parties besides keeping the publishings of newspapers and specialized magazines.