Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Mobilidade e fronteira: as territorialidades dos jovens de Corumbá, Brasil

2013; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.34096/rtt.i9.304

1852-7175

Edgar Aparecido da Costa,

Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

Mobility and border: young people’s territorialities in Corumba, Brazil. Mobility and border are sociospacial constructions which reciprocally combine and modify themselves. In this Information Age, the territorial mobilities are much more intense, complexifying the local arrangements even more. The city of Corumba-MS, located in the West of Brazil and in the border of Bolivia, was constructed from many fluxes of permanent dynamism. The objective of this work is to analyze how the young people of Corumba use the Bolivian side of the border, and which is the frequency that they visit it. It also interest us to understand how the border is present in their imaginary and if their fluxes are mainly driven to the capital city of Mato Grosso do Sul or to the Pantanal. In order to do it, 345 surveys were applied to students between 15 and 17 years old, in the local schools. It was noticed that the young people are more driven to the border, then to the Capital City and, finally, to the Pantanal.