Migração de peruanos em Boa Vista-RR

Abstract

The actually dissertation has as object the negotiations identity of peruvians who migrated to the city of Boa Vista between the years 1990 to 2010. To investigate this phenomenon started from the hypothesis that relations of friendship and kinship influence the migratory process of peruvians and impact negotiations identity experienced by them. In this sense, one of the concerns of this work is understand the motivations and meanings of different personal trajectories of men and women of peruvian nationality who left their country of origin and they integrated in another sociocultural reality. So, to verify the proximity between brazilians and peruvians and the different levels of changes made between them, to reveal the identity aspects that determine and characterize the insertion of peruvian migrants in Boa Vista´s society, was used the qualitative methodology, with an emphasis in the open interviews and informal conversation. The interlocutors of the study were men and women of peruvian nationality, between 18 and 72 years old, who came at different periods and they exert different professional activities, as merchants, doctors and teachers. The light of the theories of migration studies and identity was possible to understand how the peruvian migrants negotiate their identities, according to their migration experiences, although they are away from their place of origin, they do not lose the native culture and identity like a reference. However, they also incorporate elements of culture, and the identity of the destination enabling the negotiation of their identities through their survival strategies, from their representations, the dilemmas of their own migrant status and through of mediation wherein feel understood by Boa Vista´s society. In this context, the families networks and friendships of peruvian migrants, they strengthen the referential significant of place of origin, well as the condition of migrant subject.