Princesa do Xingu: colonização e migração na Amazônia paraense

Abstract

This paper aims to present a conceptual discussion about the terms involving migration, emigration and immigration based on references such as Sayad (1998), Ianni (2004) and Klein (2000) in the context of the creation and implantation of the Xingu Princess, in the municipality of Altamira-Pará. This context is situated in the period of opening and construction of the Transamazonic highway during the government of the general-president Emílio Garrastazu Médici in the 70’s, that also involved the plan of colonization and, consequently, the migratory movements in all the extension of the great the work in question. Interviews with two pioneers of the agricultural village were made in order to have testimony from the perspective of some of the residents who lived and witnessed events that marked the history of creation and founding of the community from their migration to the Amazon.