The children of immigrants: youth in transita t the beginning of the XXI Century (1990-2009) / Os filhos dos imigrantes: jovens em trânsito no início do Século XXI (1990-2009)

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2010

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The migration of people from the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, for the United States is a social phenomenon that has attracted the interest of scholars, mostly since the 1980s. This paper seeks to provide a differently look on such expressive phenomenon, directing the analysis for the children of immigrants, who emigrated during the eighties and nineties. Those young immigrants were born in the United States or migrated still very young and did much of their basic education abroad. To conduct the study, five interviews were collected between January and March 2009. We interviewed three boys and two girls between 16 and 25, who emigrated with a maximum of 15 years or were born in the United States. The first chapter deals with the city and its historical relationship with international migration, the similarities and differences between the old and new migratory flows and an introduction to the trajectory of the young immigrants. The second chapter begins with an analysis on the concepts of youth and generation; attempts to focus on young migrant acting and expressing itself in various ways - mediating the language spoken at home with parents, and the language spoken with friends, building and rebuilding what are their feelings and memories of Brazil and about the family s past, encouraging and or disapproving the values obtained at school, with friends and with the society that surrounds them. The conclusion deals with dreams, plans and expectations of these young people for an often uncertain future. This paper seeks to understand the historical process and the socioeconomic and cultural phenomenon of modern immigration, trying to discover the dynamics of identity formation, language and specific peculiarities of living between two worlds and thus provide new insights that will serve as a dialogue for other studies from the fields of History of Time Present and History of Migration, which target the second generation of Brazilian immigrants

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imigrante história migrações internacionais governador valadares migração jovens imigrantes minas gerais história das migrações historia segunda geração migration history governador valadares second generation international migration

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