Os processos de reterritorialização dos imigrantes haitianos na região de Londrina-PR e sua interface com as religiões
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48213/travessia.i82.376Keywords:
Migration flows, Reterritorialization processes, ReligionAbstract
Considering the intensification of the Haitian migratory flow to Brazil in 2010, the present article problematizes the processes of reterritorialization from the interfaces with the religious transit and the links with religious organizations or institutions in the processes of integration and consolidation of networks of support and solidarity. The research consisted of a bibliographic survey about the subject, field research with observation and interviews with Haitian subjects in the region of Londrina-PR between 2015 and 2017. Immigration is a social process of the contemporary world, and Brazil is inserted in this scenario as a country of reception of immigrants in the 21st century. Having as a theoretical option the contributions of the geographer Milton Santos, it is understood that the immigrant, when encountering an unknown territory, undergoes a process of reterritorialization, projecting its insertion in this new territory. In the context of immigrants there is a religious movement motivated by the process of change and by the new daily life, which live in the receiving country from its characteristics that contribute to reterritorialization. This aspect becomes fundamental for the different migratory groups and can be identified as one of the main strategies of insertion and resistance of their cultural identity, with a view to the constitution of personal relationships within local religious organizations and institutions. Oral sources indicate the organization of immigrants in three Pentecostal camp churches exclusively for this group; also indicate that the Brazilian State has not been a full provider of public policies for immigrants, as a consequence, the denominational institutions, especially the Caritas Network and the Pastoral of the Migrant of the Catholic Church, have been mainly responsible, along with the Haitian immigrants in the north of Paraná, by the process of reception, regularization of documentation, granting material goods of basic needs, as well as the dissemination of information about access to social goods and services.