The Journal aims to divulge results of investigations from Brazilian and Foreign researchers in the several fields of Social Science.
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
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Corporeidades negras e produção do cuidado em saúde: a agência terapêutica das práticas estéticas e performáticas afro-brasileiras
This work investigates how Afro-Brazilian aesthetics and performances act as legitimate forms of care and resistance for Black individuals, in light of associativist practices and African ancestry rites. Contextualized by structural racism and the invisibility of Black epistemes in the field of health knowledge and practice, the study highlights the relevance of Afro-diasporic ontologies for promoting culturally sensitive collective care. The therapeutic agency of these knowledges is interpreted through the thought of Édouard Glissant and Leda Maria Martins, concerning Black modes of inscription, also drawing on concrete experiences such as the Reinado de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Oliveira-MG. Methodologically, it employs symbolic-performative analysis and decolonial theoretical grounding to reflect on how Afro-Brazilian practices produce care, resistance, and a sense of belonging, being fundamental for antiracist health policies in Brazil.
Parte II. Patrimônio, Cidades e Transformações Sociais
Gênero como categoria analítica: interdisciplinaridade, interseccionalidade, decolonialidade e o direito à diversidade
This article analyzes the consolidation of gender as an analytical category within the interdisciplinary field, mapping the evolution of this theoretical production in its interface with the praxis of social movements and academic feminism. The investigation examines legal settlements and conceptual tensions surrounding diversity, privileging the study of subalternized bodies and the empowerment technologies that challenge historically silencing hegemonies. Grounded in the frameworks of cultural history, decoloniality, and constitutional law, the study reveals mechanisms of epistemological marginalization that affect insurgent knowledge and experiences within spaces of power. By centering these trajectories, the work highlights the potential of the gender category in the redemocratization of knowledge and the articulation of political alliances aimed at disrupting the logic of colonial domination and the intersectionalities of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Ensino superior, raça e docência: a presença de professores negros nos cursos de Turismo de Universidades Públicas Brasileiras
This article aims to analyze trajectories of Black professors in Tourism courses at public universities in Brazil. It emphasizes three aspects: the profile and training of these professors; their experiences with ANPTUR (National Association of Tourism Professionals); and the disputes and resistance surrounding the Tourism curriculum. To reach this reflection, the text presents a critical discussion of higher education in Brazil as a field of political affirmation for white elites, also a historical overview of Tourism courses in the country. The study was conducted using oral history interviews and documents research.
Lisboa, a Segunda Guerra Mundial e os centenários de 1940
Lisbon, 1939. In the middle of World War II, the Portuguese capital had already become the only European city where allies and Axis powers could operate in broad daylight, monitoring each other and placing the city at the center of the international espionage map. . This true film noir setting – like Casablanca – served as a stage for behind-the-scenes maneuvers, betrayals and tumultuous romances, promoted by refugees, bankers, diplomats, writers and artists who crossed paths in hotels and cafes in the city center, at the same time. I fear that the country became rich by hiding gold bars stamped with the Nazi insignia.
Tentar a vida e saber andar: as mobilidades de comunidades vazanteiras do norte de Minas Gerais
Vazanteiro is an ethnic category used to represent the way of life of communities that live on the banks and islands of the São Francisco River. Besides planting in the high lands during the rainy months, they also cultivate the "vazantes" (floodplains/receding riverbanks) left by the river during the dry season. This article presents an ethnography carried out with Quilombo de Praia, Quilombo da Lapinha, Pau Preto (Matias Cardoso), and Ilha de Pau de Légua (Manga), which are Vazanteiro communities in the Middle São Francisco, in Northern Minas Gerais. The research revealed the meanings of migration and how it crosses generations in the context of Traditional Communities which, although they fight for the maintenance of their territory, need to leave for the reproduction of life. These mobilities are deeply connected to their way of life, and even the movements that lead them to "go outside" do not disarticulate the system; instead, they update it, serving as forms of resistance.
Patrimônios, bens e apelos culturais em áreas periféricas: o município de Magé na Baixada Fluminense em debate
Contemporary debates about cultural heritage have been shaped by various actors, touched upon by issues related to cultural diversity and social participation, previously neglected by legal instruments and forms of legal instrumentalization. Decrees 3551 of 2000 and 5753 of 2006 are legal milestones in this change, innovating forms of action and promoting visibility for heritage in peripheral areas. Based on this concept, this article seeks to discuss thefoundations of this new conception of cultural heritage in Brazil, the role of social participation, and how the periphery has been gaining visibility in this new context. To illustrate, this scenario is discussed in Magé, a municipality on the outskirts of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, and the initiatives developed there.
O Maestro Felizardo Pompeo e suas atividades em Amparo e Região
This study is an excerpt from an ongoing project aimed at recovering and disseminating biographies and musical works of composers who worked in the São Paulo waterways circuit from the late 19th century onwards. This study will revisit the musical activities developed in Amparo and the surrounding region by the musician Felizardo Pompeo, born in Campinas/SP in 1884 and deceased in São Paulo/SP in 1955. He had the opportunity to study musical theory and practice with the maestro and composer Leôncio Alves da Silva. Pompeo was a multi-instrumentalist, with the clarinet as his main instrument. He was also a member of several music bands in Amparo and the surrounding region, founding and directing some of them. A prolific composer, his works are recorded in various musical genres, including waltz, march, maxixe, tango, and polka. He was responsible for the training of several generations of musicians.
Aproximações entre Países Germanófonos e a Amazônia por meio da música religiosa católica em dois momentos: entre vestígios e desafios de pesquisa
The presence of Catholic religious missionaries in the Brazilian Amazon dates back to the beginning of European domination, with the French Capuchins and four other religious orders that worked there. This paper proposes an analysis of the sources and documentary collections involved in the possible deepening of knowledge about the musical practices associated with the work of the Jesuits in the 18th century and the Franciscans in the first half of the 20th century. They had in common their origin from German-speaking territories. The analysis of the data obtained through bibliographic and documentary research reveals similar challenges, despite the temporal distance that marks the phenomena and the production of the sources: the lack of knowledge of the whereabouts of a significant part of the documents, the dispersal outside the Amazon, and the possible incorporation into collections.
Associativismo informal de mulheres venezuelanas em Manaus: estratégias defensivas ou ativas?
This article investigates the practices of informal associativism among Venezuelan women in Manaus, examining its nature as either a defensive or active strategy. Drawing on March and Taqqu (1986), it argues that these mutual support networks and their lack of formalization cannot be reduced to a mere reaction to vulnerability. Qualitative analysis, based on oral history, printed and digital documents, as well as the Mujeres Fuertes project, reveals a dialectic in which collective action, born of necessity, transforms into a space for entrepreneurship. An intersectional reading highlights how women construct a sense of belonging and redefine their social positions. It is concluded that informal associativism constitutes a legitimate form of organization, where women navigate dynamically between resistance and the active projection of futures.
Dinâmicas Socioespaciais em Manaus: desafios da urbanização e mobilidade na Amazônia
The article analyzes the socio-spatial dynamics of Manaus, emphasizing the effects of accelerated urbanization driven by the Manaus Free Trade Zone and the resulting expansion of the urban fabric without proportional investment in infrastructure and collective transport. The study demonstrates how selective urbanization, socio-spatial segregation and unequal accessibility structure everyday mobility, reinforcing disparities between central and peripheral areas. The consolidation of the Industrial District as the main employment center, combined with the chronic insufficiency of public transport, produces long commuting times and unequal access to opportunities, especially for low-income, Black, Brown and Indigenous populations. The research highlights the accelerated growth of individual motorization, the decline of active mobility and the structural crisis of the bus system. The analysis concludes that mobility in Manaus constitutes a socio-territorial phenomenon rooted in historical inequalities, requiring integrated public policies and a shift towards collective and active modes to promote equity in urban circulation.
A produção, uso e tradição das cuias na Amazônia
This article highlights one of the central elements of Amazonian culture rooted in indigenous tradition: the cuia. Amazonian cuias are containers made from the fruit of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete). An indigenous heritage with over 3,000 years of history in the region, they are cultural symbols used in daily Amazonian life to prepare, serve, and consume traditional delicacies such as açaí and tacacá. Divided into three sections, the text presents the dimensions of the gourd as art, use, and memory, and how these three axes synthesize the gourd as a material cultural heritage of the Amazon. In this, beyond the contexts and regimes of historicity, this text aims to demonstrate how a millennial indigenous tradition, initially ritualistic, has been imbued with different uses and crafts that have transformed it into art, with the development of a specific technique for its manufacture, as well as being imbued with memory and ancestry.
A Jangada: a Amazônia no olhar de Júlio Verne
This article examines Jules Verne’s intellectual trajectory and the pedagogical dimension of the novel Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881), highlighting how the work brings together science, children’s literature, Franco-Brazilian cultural exchange, and the fictional construction of the Amazon based on documentary sources. The relevance of this study lies in the role played by Verne and his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, in shaping generations of young readers worldwide; in Verne’s place within nineteenth-century print culture; and in the importance of understanding how Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon combines entertainment and instruction in its representation of the Amazon. Based on bibliographic research, the article aims to present Verne’s biographical, professional, and editorial trajectory; discuss his formative partnership with Hetzel and the consolidation of the Voyages Extraordinaires series; and examine Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon as a pedagogical, scientific, and moral narrative. The findings indicate that Verne’s intellectual development emerged from the intersection of scientific curiosity, documentary rigor, and Hetzel’s significant editorial influence. In the novel analyzed, these elements converge in the creation of an “invented” Amazon, grounded in European sources and shaped by an encyclopedic view of nature. Although this representation has prompted criticism related to scientism, colonialism, the naturalization of racial hierarchies, and “armchair literature,” it also provides a valuable framework for reflecting on the circulation of knowledge, the formation of readers, and the educational function of children’s literature in the nineteenth century.
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Resenha: imigração e escolarização Brasil – Argentina: linguagem, cultura e identidade
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Entrevista: migração chinesa para o Brasil
Entrevista foi concedida à professora Célia de Toledo Lucena, pesquisadora do CERU-FFLCH-USP e coordenadora do GEMI (Grupo de Estudos Migrações e Identidade- CERU-USP), em 24 de novembro de 2025.
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Sustainable tourism in Rapanui, San Pedro de Atacama and Torres Del Paine: three unique destinations in Chile
This article analyzes, from an anthropological and comparative perspective, the processes of sustainable tourism in three emblematic destinations in Chile: Rapa Nui, San Pedro de Atacama, and Torres del Paine. Based on theoretical frameworks from landscape anthropology, political ecology, critical tourism studies, and relational ontologies.The study argues that these territories constitute socio-ecological assemblages shaped by tensions between identity, governance, heritage-making, extractivism, and conservation. The analysis suggests that advancing toward a sustainable tourism model in Chile requires incorporating qualitative and mixed qualitative-quantitative indicators that help understand the experiences, emotions, and ways of life of local communities, as well as the external pressures of the global tourism market. The next step ist the regenerative tourism.
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The heritage of immigration has been shaped by numerous individuals who brought with them their connections to their homeland, including both material and immaterial aspects, reflected in everyday elements that express experiences and meanings in their places of production and reproduction. When they arrive in new lands, they reinterpret their identities through the reorganization of daily life. Thus, this work seeks, through a bibliographic and documentary review, to present aspects that shape the territories of immigration in three distinct cases: 1. Heritage and Immigration: Possibilities for debate from contemporary societies; 2. Associativism, Memory, and Heritage: Italians in São Paulo; and 3. Portuguese immigrants at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Porto Alegre: a heritage of the city. From these perspectives, it seeks to discuss aspects intrinsically related to the formation of the new places of immigration subjects, linking aspects of place formation, re-signification, and even reinvention, by allowing a dialogue with objects and places that reflect the departure and arrival of the immigrant subject, as well as their integration and interaction as new spaces, sometimes transformed into a cultural dynamic.
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Social Technologies and Migration: A Brief Analysis of the Current Transmigration Process
We analyze the relationship between the phenomenon of oscillating migratory return and the use of social technology tools such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others as the main communication resources currently used by migrants. We also analyze the profile of these information technology users, as well as their access to this new technology compared to how communication between migrants and their families used to be. Our goal is to understand how the coronavirus pandemic and the prohibition of physical relocation has boosted the use of these information technologies, which has led to new forms of communication, expanding and redefining the concept of transmigration. In this direction, the present work emphasizes return, transmigration and the problem of the so-called intermittent return as opposed to the definitive return, and how this intermittent return obeys a specific context in the use and development of social technologies.
Colonization and coloniality: Structural Continuities in the Migration and Exploitation of Latin American Workers
The colonization of Latin America established enduring relations of economic, racial, and social domination that continue to operate in contemporary times under the logic of coloniality. These structural continuities continue to produce inequalities that drive Latin American migration flows, especially in contexts of poverty, political instability, and labor precarization. In Brazil, Latin American migrants are predominantly employed in urban sectors characterized by informality, outsourcing, and systematic violations of rights. Notably, in this context are the sewing workshops in the city of São Paulo, where Bolivian workers are often subjected to conditions akin to slavery. At the same time, the article engages with the case of a Black Brazilian domestic worker, highlighting how the colonial legacy also shapes exploitative relations in domestic and racialized labor. The analysis also considers the role of the Center for Migrant Support and Pastoral Care (CAMI) as a space for reception, guidance, and combating contemporary slave labor, revealing the persistence of human rights violations in urban production dynamics.
Warao Displacements and Coloniality: History, Territory, and Subalternization
Until the 1980s, migrations in Latin America were analyzed without considering ethnic-racial dimensions, which rendered invisible the inequalities affecting the movements of Indigenous peoples. From a decolonial perspective, these mobilities came to be recognized as historical processes related to colonialism and territorial expropriation. Classical theories, however, fail to account for the specificities of these migrations, which intertwine internal and cross-border flows. Between Venezuela and Brazil, cases such as that of the Warao reveal long trajectories marked by violence and deterritorialization. In this study, we conduct an analysis of the historical pathways of this people, highlighting the need for a deeper reflection on the responsibilities of States in their vulnerability.
Algerians in the French nation-state: human rights, migration and citizenship
: The colonization/decolonization process in Algeria led to constant migratory flows from the countryside to the cities and from Africa to France. This long process of displacement disrupted traditional African structures, without offering additional alternative solutions. To contribute to the understanding of this process, the life stories of Algerian immigrants to the French nation-state are analyzed, reflecting their border identities, according to guidelines proposed by Abdelmalek Sayad. In this reflection, the concept of migration, as a total process, is evaluated in light of the immigrants' "place of speech." The theoretical/methodological framework is interdisciplinary, based on concepts of migration, colonialism, and decolonization, based on the example of first- and second-generation immigrants settled in France.
Elghorba perspectives: the voice of the emigrant-immigrant in the work of Abdelmalek Sayad
The current article presents brief results of discussions about the work and importance of sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad for the sociology of migration. Section 1 considers the context of his work's production: the French colonization of Algeria and the resulting Algerian migratory flows towards France. Sections 2 and 3 reflect on the methodology used by the sociologist, the subjectivity of immigrants, life stories and biographies, and sources utilized by Sayad within the social and historical conditions of this emigration-immigration. Contact networks allowed for understanding the migratory phenomenon not as a rupture through displacement, but as a continuity involving the relationship between states, societies, and individuals. Sayad inverted the sociological point of view: by introducing the idea that migratory studies should include the entire process from departure to the immigrant's conditions of stay, and also how ties between the emigrant and their family are maintained in the country of origin.
Venezuelan Immigration, social integration and education in the municipality of São Paulo
This article is an excerpt from an exploratory study conducted in 2022 at a public school in the district of Campo Limpo-SP. The school was chosen due to the significant number of Venezuelan children and adolescents enrolled. Interviews were conducted with school administrators, teachers, and two Venezuelan mothers, as well as participation in a class of the "Portas Abertas Program: Portuguese for immigrants." The Program was considered an important space for social inclusion by the interviewees. The interviews made it possible to understand some of the reasons that have led Venezuelans and other immigrants to settle in Campo Limpo, such as the price of rent, housing occupations, the expansion of the subway, commercial establishments and informal commerce, and, above all, the existence of immigrant networks.
The impact of migrations on education: latin american migrants in Brazilian basic education
The growing Latin American migratory flows in recent decades have reshaped educational contexts in Brazil. This article analyzes their impact on basic education through a literature review and secondary data analysis. It discusses recent flows and regional reconfigurations, public policies ensuring school access, resulting educational inequalities—especially linguistic barriers—and strategies of reception and interculturality. Findings reveal a significant rise in immigrant students’ enrollment, but also persistent obstacles to access, permanence, and high dropout rates, reinforced by assimilationist practices that disregard cultural and linguistic differences. The study concludes by highlighting the urgency of intercultural policies and pedagogical practices that ensure effective inclusion and equal educational opportunities.
Douglas Manoel Antonio de Abreu Pestana dos Santos
Higher education students and intercultural sensitivity: contributions of the ERASMUS generation to the psychology and intercultural communication
Interaction with individuals from other cultures can contribute to changing ethnocentric attitudes, and contact between groups can strengthen intergroup relations. It can also foster the development of intercultural sensitivity, which refers to the affective dimension of intercultural communication competence. The research carried out in this study aimed to analyze the level of intercultural sensitivity in Portuguese higher education students and to identify potential moderating variables in the development of intercultural sensitivity. To this end, an exploratory and quantitative study was conducted with a sample of 97 higher education students. The results showed medium-high levels of intercultural sensitivity. This research corroborates the presence of the variables under study, namely those relating to participation in Erasmus, prior contact with different countries and cultures, gender, academic level, cultural education, and the intentionality of exposure to other countries and cultures. The results of the empirical study reinforce the conceptual perspectives, that is, that intercultural sensitivity is a basic element in demonstrating interest, empathy, respect, and motivation for others who are culturally different, and that contacts and interactions, even if indirect, with other cultures can also be stages for effective intercultural communication and exert a positive influence on the intercultural experience of students.
Identity, interculturality and social relations between Senegalese and Brazilians
This article presents findings from a doctoral dissertation conducted with Senegalese individuals living in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, between 2019 and 2022. Aspects such as socialization, urban occupation, cuisine, and political organization areexplored through close observation of events in which the researcher and collaborators created rhizomatic plateaus of social interaction. In several images presented in this article, Senegalese people are seen wearing patchwork clothing, a typical transgression of the Bay Falls, to counter the French colonizer&#39;s insistence on wearing shirts or suits. Wolof, na language, and dahiras, Sunday gatherings, are also aspects of their ancestral culturethat persist in the Afro-diaspora. They are intercultural and create relational networks of cooperation in Brazil, demonstrating organizational complexity and the ability to strengthen their identities.
International migrants and income transfer programs in Brazil: an analysis based on a group of Haitians living in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, 2015-2023
The article analyzes the relationship between international migrants, the labor market, and cash transfer programs, based on a case study of a group of Haitian migrants living in Curitiba and its Metropolitan Region (Paraná, Brazil). It begins by presenting the context of Haitian migration to Brazil, with a focus on the state of Paraná and on Curitiba and its surrounding metropolitan area, as well as recent developments in the Brazilian economy. It then examines the recent evolution of the labor market in Paraná for the Haitian migrant population, highlighting the relationship between the contraction in job opportunities and the rise in migrants assisted by cash transfer programs, especially the Bolsa Família program. Drawing on interviews with a group of nine Haitian migrants, the article analyzes specific aspects of the broader relationship between employment and income transfer programs. In conclusion, it argues that the increase in migrant beneficiaries of cash transfer programs results both from a gradual improvement in their knowledge of Brazil’s social protection system and from the contraction of the labor market, constituting an additional element in the process of socioeconomic integration.