Migration and social reproduction: the time and space of the cane cutter and his family / Migração e reprodução social: tempos e espaços do cortador de cana e de sua família

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This research aims to understand how does the contradictory process of social reproduction occurs, by means of analysing day-to-day practices and the social reproduction strategies of the migrant sugarcane harvesters family living at Jequitinhonha Valley. The migrant men live sometimes closer to peasantry condition, and sometimes absorbed as sugarcane proletarians. They do not live fully in neither of those conditions. At sugarcane territory they live a proletarian condition, although at peasants territory they do not have land for working any more and their family can not count on them for day-to-day practices. These peasants-migrants are at the margin. The fieldwork was done at two rural communities: Alfredo Graça and Engenheiro Schnoor, located at Araçuaí, MG, in the Jequitinhonha valley. These communities have some commom features: the mens migration for sugarcane harvest at São Paulo and a number of costs imposed to their families, particularly to their wives. We focus on understanding how this subject, in a peasant-migrant condition, persists in time and wich are the fractures that this condition produces to his family and his territory.

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práticas cotidianas agrofuel production migration jequitinhonha valley migração day-to-day practices peasant-migrant vale do jequitinhonha camponês-migrante produção de agrocombustíveis

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