Migration, race and the regional question in Brazil: a reading of Giralda Seyferth’s contribution

• Autor(a) principal: Butzke, Luciana
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Theis, Ivo Marcos, Santos, Nelson Afonso Garcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/17510
• topic: Migração; Raça; Região; Giralda Seyferth; Brasil; Migración; Raza; Región; Giralda Seyferth; Brasil; Migration; Race; Region; Giralda Seyferth; Brazil

The purpose of this article is to analyze the timeliness of Giralda Seyferth’s contribution to the studies on migration and race in their relation to the regional question in Brazil. Giralda Seyferth (1943-2017) was a historian and anthropologist who devoted herself to studies on colonization, peasantry, immigration, nationalism and racism. As for the method, we used to bibliographic research, with an analysis of the author's publications on the themes of migration, race and regional development. In reading her work, it is possible to identify, in the construction of the North and South regions of Brazil, in the 19th century, the differentiation between nationals and aliens, and the racism intrinsic to the migratory process stimulated in the South region. In the formation of Brazil, it is possible to see how the production of regional differences occurred from the various cycles of Brazilian peripheral capitalism and from the functionality of Africans’ enslavement and of German immigration to capital. In Giralda Seyferth’s work, the incorporation of race and racism, its use in the construction of the Nation and its presence in the fragmentation of the territory into regions is made evident.