Deslocamentos, sonhos, desafios e identidades: experiência de mulheres nordestinas em Boa Vista/Roraima (1985 - 2000)

Abstract

This thesis is made to ponder about the migratory experience of the Northeastern women who moved to the city of Boa Vista - Roraima State, between the years of 1985 and 2000. It questions the strains in their hometown or the referrals that contributed to their migration; what these women‟s characteristics are; to what extent the changes related to women‟s roles in the second half of the twentieth century, contributed to this process and to what extent gender issues favored the departure initiative; what kind of networking between the Northeast and the North regions were built; as well as the arrival and the insertion of them in the capital of Roraima. It also inquires about the meanings of migratory experience; and what changes marked these women‟s lives towards the challenges and possibilities in life in the far north of Amazônia. To this end, it took the oral history as its main source. A total of 16 themed interviews semi structured in the form of a flexible script were taken. Besides this source, it was used newspapers, local magazines, catalogues and many types of documents, including songs from the period being studied, in order to capture continuities and changes related to identity issues. It sought, finally, to question certain themes as the displacement, the daily life and the gender relations, looking at the history of these women as each of them drew their migratory experience and built its narrative in the midst of a plurality of roles and how, as a historical subject, each entered the picture played by contemporary challenges