Continuity and output of the field of young adults in the west of Santa Catarina

• Autor(a) principal: Stein, Jaíne
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Risson, Ana Paula, Schuck, Anderson Luis, Mahl, Álvaro Cielo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sociais e Humanas
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/sociaisehumanas/article/view/34701
• topic: Rural youth; Continuity in the field; Output of the field; Psychology; Jovens rurais; Permanência no campo; Saída do campo; Psicologia

The migration of young people from the countryside to the city as established an emerging social problem, considering the new forms of production in agriculture, changes in family organizations and their prospects for the future. Against that background, this research proposes to analyze the continuity and output of the field, of young adults in the western region of Santa Catarina. It was interviewed eight subjects, divided into two groups, one group consisting of four young people who remain in the field and the other group composed of four young people who move out the field. All participants are children of farmers and studied in a Rural Family Home (CRF) of a municipality in the west of Santa Catarina. Data collection was done through semi-structured interviews, whose speeches were analyzed in the sense of words, enabling an understanding of the historical process of rural youth in this social context. One can identify a plurality of reasons for the output or continuity of young people in the countryside, crossed by family dynamics, social and educational opportunities and desires of financial stability. It is also observed the constitution of paradoxes that refer to the continuity or not in the countryside and on the conditions of life in the city and in the rural environment, which alternate according to the social and family positions, the psychological aspects and the sociability possibilities of these young