Ethnic/national solidarity mechanisms and immigration: Chinese and South-Korean in Aracaju, Brazil
The object of this article is the ethnic/national solidarity mechanisms in immigratory context. This article is based on information obtained from two researches on the Chinese and South Koreans immigrants developed in 2011 and 2018 in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe State. Our research was conducted by...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Plural (São Paulo. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/171530 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/plural/article/view/171530 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Imigração Chineses Sul-coreanos Mecanismos de solidariedade étnica/nacional Aracaju Immigration Chinese South Koreans Ethnic/national solidarity mechanism |
| Sumario: | The object of this article is the ethnic/national solidarity mechanisms in immigratory context. This article is based on information obtained from two researches on the Chinese and South Koreans immigrants developed in 2011 and 2018 in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe State. Our research was conducted by bibliography revision, direct observation and deep interviews. The two immigrant groups established themselves in the local community through commercial establishments, such as sales of imported products and snack bars. The presence of these two groups in Aracaju occurred through indirect immigration flows. Before they moved to Aracaju, they lived in other Brazilian cities, especially São Paulo. This trajectory reveals a double mobility, that is, the geographic and social. The main reason for immigration to Aracaju is associated with the opportunity of moving from being an employee to be the owner of a commercial establishment. The double mobility process is sustained by the ethnic/national solidarity mechanism, operated from kinship and friendship relations. This mechanism is based on idiom and cultural traditions, such as collaborative saving and capitalization. In its turn, this process unfolds itself again in another double dynamic, materialized in belonging sense and, at the same time, internal hierarchies, which are based on family relationship and relation class social. |
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