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Hospedaria de Imigrantes da Ilha das Flores: Um Lugar, Muitas Histórias

2016; UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12957/interag.2016.23575

2236-4447

Natália De Lima Azevedo,

Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

DOI: 10.12957/interag.2016.23575 The Immigrant Hostel of Flores Island aimed at receiving and screening the many immigrants who were arriving in Brazil. This text aims at briefly highlighting the history of Immigrant Hostel of Flores Island, reporting the role it played in the years of its operation. It also seeks to situate the creation of the Flores Island Immigration Memory Center and the research process of reconstruction of the memories of this place. The research was conducted through the use of periodicals, ministerial reports and many other documents that have allowed us to understand how the history of this place was built. Coordinator, research fellows and other researchers participated in the process that has shared results in regular meetings. The open-air museum is the product of research and our experiences in the mediation process. Through it, we reproduce what we have learnt, enabling us to remove the Immigrant Hostel from an unknown place to the place of discovery.