O Sentimento de pertencimento do migrante: alguns casos da cidade de Dourados-MS

Abstract

The research entitled “The belonging feeling of the migrant: Some cases from Dourados – MS” has the main purpose of analyzing the narratives from Italian descendents – living at different areas of Dourados – whom, coming from different parts of the country, settled their roots in this southern town of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The analyses intents to observe the discursive processes that point to the different levels of belonging (or/and not belonging) experimented by a foreigner, that is, a person whom has lived, for several years, in a distant place from where his origin is. It is possible to visualize, through the narrators’ discourses, traces of a strong bound they maintain not only with the places they originally came from, but, also, with a place built and fixed in the stories of their ancestors, as well as with the space that sustains their practices nowadays. Having in mind, therefore, the heterogeneity which constitutes, both, the base of Dourados’ foundation and the innermost of each person who has fixed his roots in here, this paperwork seeks to observe in the narrators’ discourse the continuous symbolic (re)organization of their identities. For such purposes, the analyses will be based on the French semiotics theory. The theoretical contributions from authors such as Julien Algirdas Greimas, Jacques Fontanille, Eric Landowski, José Luiz Fiorin, Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros, will be essential to the analyses ‘development. We believe this research will create the opportunity to contemplate the otherness relations established between individuals, as well as their articulation means.