“To the molds of the earth”: Soul-brazilian immigrants in Paraguay

• Autor(a) principal: Gnoatto, Vanucia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/34279
• topic: Identity. Networks. Immigrants.; Identidade. Redes. Imigrantes.

This article aims to analyze the importance of the social networks created among the families and/ or immigrants from South Brazil who entered Paraguay between the 1970s and 1980s in the maintenance of their own identities in some cities of the department of Alto Paraná. Starting from the historiographic review of the theme, it is sought to identify which elements of composition of its ethnic and regional identity weremaintained, what traits were assimilated, giving rise to a hybrid identity and which resistances present. It starts from the assumption that it is a frontier zone and, consequently, with fluid or porous identities. Even in this context, the Brazilian immigrants differed in relation to each other through the language and their original culture maintained through the created cultural networks, which preserve the relation of these very close to the country of origin. As sources of study, historiographical review and oral sources were used.