Fronteiras em construção: representações de migrantes brasileiros na Guiana Francesa

Abstract

Its main objective is to perceive, through the narratives of migrants who live in French Guyana, some representations to be classifi ed as migrants and/or strangers in a process that considers the construction of daily life strategies. In this context the relations between migrants of different countries is examined and the construction of spaces marked by the diversity reveal identities and perceptions about the conflict, solidarities, alterity between the “I and the other”. The investigation is being realized since 2005, with migrants, mostly Brazilians, who live, legalized or clandestine, in the Overseas Department of France. This project, which passes through six years of ethnographic research with Brazilian migrants in legalized or clandestine situation in French Guyana, pretends to take this investigation of life experiences and identities of migrants in a wider and comparative perspective.