Relatos de imigrantes africanos na cidade de São Paulo sobre preconceito

Abstract

This work has as main objective to describe and analyze accounts of African immigrants who live and / or work in São Paulo city for at least two years below prejudice and racism. From a practical point of view, if adopted, to capture content to be analyzed, semi-structured interviews. For content analysis, the proposal was to analyze the interviews by categories that are drawn up as elements in the research subjects' speech and that relate directly to the objectives of this work. In the theoretical part, we tried to analyze the core elements of migration in relation to the productive restructuring of capital, trying to establish links between comparative unequal forms of objectification of capitalism and the social relations of production. Based on this outlook, it sought to explore the possible concatenations between migration in the contemporary world and the African immigration in São Paulo. For this, it delineated the key elements of this new phase of capitalism, called productive restructuring. On the literature review about African immigration to Brazil, whose themes of prejudice and racial discrimination are often addressed in existing research, entered in the debate on race relations in Brazil. Studies on racial relations approached in Brazil, emphasizing the dynamics of contemporary studies departing from analytical proposition that race relations in Brazil, given the continental character of the country, are mediated by variables to take into consideration regional differences in historical conformation of race relations, although there elements that nationalized the studies and allow talk about race relations in national scopes. Then we enter the theoretical perspectives about the everyday and prejudice from a psychosocial perspective. We discuss these concepts in theoretical perspective proposed by Agnes Heller. Given the above the theoretical part, methodological and content analysis, any conclusion on the subject in question is partial. Migration in the contemporary world displays facets of the most diverse and their analytical connections require ample time for more conclusive statements. It is certainly not the case with this dissertation. But as conclusive opinion, we can say that to think the migrant condition one must see them, identify their internal diversity and demands, know their life experiences, their concerns when they migrate and their struggles, their hardships, promoting the emergence and spread existing groups, know their jobs and conditions, as well as family life and their aspirations