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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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.
Os Cadernos CERU reúne neste dossiê um conjunto de estudos e de pesquisas empíricas sobre a temática Migrações: trajetórias, interculturalidade, políticas e colonialismo. Trata-se de uma publicação do Centro de Estudos Rurais e Urbanos que, ao longo de sua existência tem pautado uma pluralidade de temas, abordagens e reflexões metodológicas. O tema Migrações tem sido um dos focos priorizado pelo CERU, resultado de trabalhos desenvolvidos por pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais em Grupos de Estudos ativos há muitas décadas e comunicações apresentadas em GTs nos Encontros anuais do CERU; tais práticas confirmam o anseio pelo aprofundamento teórico e empírico da temática e como pela preocupação com a inserção social de sua produção.
Maria Christina Siqueira de Souza Campos
In Memoriam: Ao Prof. Dr. Afrânio Garcia
A presente publicação do Cadernos CERU-USP, dedicada aos 50 Anos dos Encontros do Centro de Estudos Rurais e Urbanos, da Universidade de São Paulo, é um espaço significativo para se homenagear o Prof. Dr. Afrânio Raul Garcia Jr., importante cientista social, pesquisador do Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Contemporain, na École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, localizado em Paris, França. A École integra o Centro de Sociologia Europeia - CSE/EHESS/Paris - criado em 1960 por Raymond Aron, onde o professor Pierre Bourdieu foi secretário-geral até 1969 abrigando muitos centros de pesquisas em Ciências Sociais.
Resenha: A natureza transitória do destino dos imigrantes
Já é bastante difundida a ideia do sociólogo argelino Abdelmaleck Sayad, de que a migração é um “fato social completo”, ou seja, é compreendida no campo do conhecimento científico por meio de um itinerário epistemológico, percorrido no cruzamento das Ciências Sociais, como um ponto de encontro de inúmeras disciplinas: História, Geografia, Demografia, Economia, Direito, Sociologia, Psicologia, Comunicação etc. E é exatamente essa característica que salta aos olhos na obra Vidas em trânsito: Sorveteiros ítalo-brasileiros entre Itália, Alemanha e Brasil como (não) lugares, da pesquisadora Diane Portugueis.
Entrevista: gênero, raça e território no agenciamento de práticas de cuidado e cura tradicionais
Nascida em 1975 em Ubatuba, Litoral Norte Paulista, Denise Luiz é uma mulher negra, autodeclarada “caiçara de origem afro-indígena” e erveira, com profundo conhecimento sobre uso de plantas medicinais da Mata Atlântica. Formou-se em direito pela Unitau (Universidade de Taubaté) e teve sua trajetória de vida marcada pela memória e interesse em práticas tradicionais de cura e produção de cuidado em saúde. Atualmente coordena o Sítio medicinal Ervário Caiçara, espaço de confluências entre cultura e saúde comunitária, situado no Sertão do Ubatumirim, território de geografia predominantemente rural, cuja presença do modo de vida caiçara é significativamente presente e, sobretudo, resistente aos avanços da crise ambiental circunscrita nas diversas facetas do capitalismo contemporâneo. O Ervário Caiçara é um quintal medicinal com mais de 200 espécies de plantas fitoterápicas não convencionais, cultivadas por Denise e sua família para uso com finalidade de prevenção, cura e cuidado em saúde. É também um espaço de encontro e troca de saberes das Culturas Caiçaras, atuando como espaço simbólico e material de manutenção e preservação dos saberes tradicionais.
Urbanização versus Tribalismo: o imaginário francês sobre o Novo Mundo a partir de relatos de navegação dos Séculos XVI e XVII
This work presents an analysis of European geographic and cultural conceptions about Brazil and America, based on translations of French texts from the 17th and 19th centuries that document the first French expedition to land in Brazil, led by Binot Gonneville, in 1503 The analysis focuses on perceptions recorded in maps and travel reports and cartographic documents, revealing the impact of the encounter between the urbanized and rural European world and the indigenous tribal cultures of the Americas, in addition to the mythical Southern Land. The research highlights the context of the voyage of the Norman captain Gonneville aboard the ship L’Espoir (1503-1505), when he reached the coast of the current southern coast of Brazil, where he found the carijós. At this meeting, a chief allowed Gonneville to take his son to Europe, with the promise of returning in twenty moons. Thus, the study constitutes an anthropological and sociological dialogue between two worlds — the urban European and the tribal indigenous —, fundamental for understanding the bases of Western thought about the American territory. In summary, the research aims to explore European views and perceptions about America and the Southern Land, analyzing the impact and cultural exchanges that occurred during the first French expeditions to Brazil, with a special focus on Binot Gonneville's expedition. To this end, it uses translations of French texts from the 17th and 19th centuries and historical documents, such as maps, logbooks and travel reports.
Humanização, Educação e ações educativas vivenciadas no Colégio Agostiniano São José, São Paulo/Brasil
This article focuses on analyzing the concept of a humanizing education, emphasizing the socio-emotional dimension and its integration into the teaching-learning processes in Basic Education, aiming at the holistic development of the human being. The investigative process is guided by the works of the philosopher and theologian Augustine of Hippo (354–430) concerning education, in dialogue with renowned authors whose contributions explore thematic intersections, including curriculum and humanization. The methodology employed is characterized by a qualitative approach based on bibliographic studies, document analysis, and field research conducted through interviews with teachers at Colégio Agostiniano São José, located in São José do Rio Preto/SP. The results reveal that teaching practices in Basic Education act as enhancers of essential values for a humanizing formation, fostering active citizenship through experiences imbued with empathy and altruism.
Lutas Sociais na Amazônia: um relato de experiência de comunidades rurais ribeirinhas da Reserva Extrativista Tapajós Arapiuns (Pa)
This article is part of ongoing doctoral research and aims to discuss the social movements and struggles of traditional riverside communities in the interior of the Amazon under the theoretical lens of social participation theory. The research is based on a qualitative approach, with data collected through bibliographic and documentary research, as well as field research with participant observation in the region of the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve (Pa), one of the largest conservation units in Brazil. In the midst of the challenges posed by the Amazonian territory, environmental crimes and the climate crisis that is plaguing this region, these communities have made progress through social struggles in defence of the territory and the preservation of the environment, especially through partnerships with social organizations and government agencies, as well as the institutionalization and community organizations in the territory itself.
"Santa Luzia the daylight shines and made me see life with much more colour": dreams and perspectives of pagodeira youth in the nineties
This article analizes the testemonies of two romantic pagode lovers: Fernanda and Iranildo, lower class people who lived intensely the pagodeira scene from the 90's. The stories shared here are part of my master's research which is in progress. The metodology used to tell Feranda and Iranildo memories it's oral and decolonial history. Their testemonies reveal a periphery that "grew up in empty spaces" of the city, facing the absence of basic infrastructure and state's violence. Through theses stories, the article seeks to highlight the relevance of the romantic pagode as a cultural movement of resistance and belonging, fundamental for the affirmation of identities and the strengthening of bonds, echoing the struggle and the dream of a generation that resisted, created and transformed itself though music.
This article discusses society mimicked in informal micro-societies. The streets and their regulars generate diverse paths and ‘pull strings’ in peculiar ways. In this report, the focus is, based on the premises of Milton Santos and Lucy Lippard, on individual scope and reducing inequalities – SDG 10, through group behaviors that stand out, compared to what is expected of the entire contemporary society. In this material, then, we have territorialization that is shared and respected; issues of identity; prejudices and ideological differences, even if debated without extremism; and above all, issues of gender and sexuality. This article is an excerpt of the continuous author’s post-doctoral research.
Desafios da obra programada e suas espacialidades in progress: square em estado mágico em Inhotim
This article is based on the research The Space of Architecture in Hélio Oiticica's Penetrables: The Impact of Environmental Art on Architectural Knowledge, which explores the artist's inventions from an architectural viewpoint, focusing on the spatialities generated by bodily interaction when participants engage with them. The objective of this article is to investigate how this process unfolds within the context of the Penetrables, drawing a possible analogy with architectural settings, where the user’s actions also occur in progress. The exploratory and qualitative study incorporates documentary and bibliographic research, field visits, a case study with a phenomenological approach, and interview. The ambiguities created by this spatiality represent the key findings of the research thus far.
Entre óperas, manifestos, skate e slackline: usos e ressignificações do e no Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Na esteira da expansão cafeeira, da abolição da escravatura e da imigração em grande escala, a cidade de São Paulo de finais do século XIX sofreu enormes mudanças. Mudando sua antiga vocação de entroncamento de rios que levavam ao interior, São Paulo agora centralizava os ramais ferroviários que vinham do interior do estado com destino ao porto de Santos.
Arte e educação: um estudo de estéticas teatrais nos anos iniciais do Fundamental I, em São Paulo
Art teaching in the early years of Elementary School is guided by national curricular parameters, which can promote knowledge among students through the study of the following artistic manifestations: visual art, sound, performing arts and dance. From this perspective, the intention of this communication is to reflect on the importance of working with theatrical aesthetics in the classroom, in which children may develop learning skills which stimulates expressive capabilities, socialization and dialogical practices.
Antes do MP3: as motivações por trás do comércio informal de música em 1980-1981
This article aims to expose the main motivations behind the informal music trade that occurred in the extinct Somtrês Magazine. Published between 1979 and 1989, Brazil's first music and sound equipment magazine dedicated part of its pages to advertisements from its readers, who sold, bought, and exchanged a series of music-related products. Among these products, we highlight the trade of “pirate” recording tapes, a practice that occurred even though the magazine had an anti-piracy discourse in many of its articles. This article summarizes part of the conclusions of the master's dissertation ANTES DO MP3: Estudo sobre as cartas dos leitores da revista SOMTRÊS e o comércio informal de fitas cassete entre 1980 e 1981, defended in 2020.
Alimentação e literatura: a comida na caracterização de Macabéa, em A Hora da Estrela
This article is part of an interdisciplinary research project called Cultures and Arts in Contemporary Master's Degree, and the project's goal is to explore how food is used in the novel A hora da estrela, by Clarice Lispector. The article will briefly describe how food is used to characterize the protagonist, Macabéa. The methodologie used in this paper is a bibliographic review and a theoretical approach grounded in the frameworks by Sandra Pesavento, Josué de Castro, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Simone Weil.