Rumo à Ilha Esmeralda: a nova onda migratória do Brasil

Abstract

The current state of the economy, politics and moralsin Brazil isworrying. Currently we live in lands bathed by crises that affect the lives of thousands of brazilians, both in the issue of unemployment and the decline in quality of life, causing a group of individuals to seek solutions to these problems beyond the national territory.The main objective of the research wasto analyze in detail what qualified migrant subjects seek when performing the migratory act outside Brazilian lands.In this work we studied a profile of flow of individuals who have the desire to cross borders in search of emancipation and decent living conditions, because for these people, staying in Brazil means living within a hegemonic thinking focused on supremacy with colonial, capitalist and patriarchal elements. The situation was studied based on the theories of post-abyssal thinking of the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos to identifythe motives behind the subject’s choice of migration. The case of the individual’s mobility during the migratory act was studied on the basis of the network capital theory of sociologist John Urry and Anthony Elliot associating it with the concept of motility written by sociologist Vincent Kaufmann.In the methodological framework, a single case study of a migrant subject who left Brazil with the purpose of seeking quality of life overseas was carried out. As a result of research, we realize that the subject's life situation when crossing the borders has been enriched in the face of an increase in social relations and the conquest of a social emancipation that is currently ona state of ascension.This work does not seek a solution to the problem described, but rather a reflection of the current situation in which Brazil finds itself, a country that before was the stage of immigration and today finds itself as a country of expulsion.