Corpo-território, migração e relações de gênero: mulheres venezuelanas de Dourados-MS (2015-2019)

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is inserted in the Research Line Borders, Identities, and Representations of the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Grande Dourados-UFGD. The research aimed to record the memories of Venezuelan women who migrated to Dourados - MS, from 2015 to 2019. Within the scope, the condition of migrant and gender are understood as guiding questions of the research, from an analytical perspective of intersectionality involving gender, race, religion, nationality, skin color, social class, identity, and migratory condition. Thus, in a mosaic of issues interconnected to material and affective losses inherent to the refuge condition, these factors, combined with the gender issue, make the migrating woman one of the most vulnerable subjects today. By considering the entire trajectory and history of Venezuelans prior to migration, the notion of body-territories is used as a procedure for destabilizing and displacing heteronormativity in its oppressive form. From this notion, it is possible to think about social and migration networks, construction of relationship circuits, by unveiling the concreteness of women's positions in front of their own migration. Therefore, we seek to investigate who are the women who migrated, the roles they played in the migratory process, migration dynamics, work conditions, social and migration networks. The sources and/or methods used in documentary research are written and oral sources constructed through critical and systematic analysis involving Oral History, production of field diary, use and analysis of interviews, encompassing present-time history and various factors, such as: which subjects composed the migratory processes, the reasons that led to migration and that influenced migration, historical experiences prior to migration, gender relations, and power built in life between places. Thus, listening to such women made it possible to analyze specificities of migrations, ruptures, interruptions imposed by migration, connecting Oral History and women's history with historically constructed experiences and roles occupied by women within contemporary migratory flows. From the memory work with women who migrated from Venezuela, we raise/diagnose/achieve new arguments to deconstruct prominent and elitist social markers and thus intersect perspectives on how relationships are built between migrants and non-migrants in Dourados, state of Mato Grosso do Sul.