A conjugalidade intercultural de brasileiras: uma análise sistêmica de posts em blogs

• Autor(a) principal: Louback, Carolina Tavares da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15206
• topic: Casamento intercultural; Conjugalidade intercultural; Migração; Blogs; Internet; Intercultural marriage; Intercultural conjugality; Migration; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The facility with which people move and communicate in the modern world has contributed to the growing number of intercultural marriages. Based on the systemic comprehension of conjugality and family, this research aimed to contribute to the understanding of the processes involved in the formation of intercultural couples and families. For this purpose, a documental research was carried out having as its analysis material the contents of posts from 10 blogs by Brazilian women who are married to foreigners and live outside Brazil. Two thematic axes have been adopted, a priori the immigration and the relation with the foreign culture and the intercultural conjugal and family relationship. The material collected was submitted to a categorial qualitative analysis, using analogy as a criterion, and to an interpretation of the contents; the similarities and specificities of the material collected were later analyzed. Our analysis of the accounts posted has allowed us to conclude that the process of cultural adaptation experienced by the immigrants was successful. They counted on the support received by their husband or wife, their families, and the immigrant s own personal resources. The daily contact with their own culture is made possible by blogs, of the virtual diary type, as well as through the use of the Portuguese language, which act as vehicles for the maintenance of the affective bonds with their original families and friends. The intercultural couples who have been studied work hard to develop a new way which encompasses both cultures. Thus, they realize the wedding ceremony in both countries; they value each other s cuisine; they transmit their respective mother-tongues to their children; and they join the cultural celebrating rites of both cultures. The results obtained are relevant to psychotherapists who work with intercultural couples and families, as well as to professionals interested in the development of educational actions and actions which promote the health of the entire social network of those who experience this process