Rearranjos e trajetórias

ítalo-brasileiros trabalhadores em sorveterias na Alemanha em tempos de Covid-19

Abstract

We start from the observations of the author’s doctoral thesis, which pointed out the existence of a migratory network in the municipality of Urussanga, in the south of Brazil, which encourages young people to work in ice cream parlors in Germany, constituting a colonizing narrative of the migratory process that engenders individuals and their families in a broad social process, in which private life and success projects are linked to the city’s successful project. It was observed that this phenomenon brings experiences between places (Brazil and Germany), which we consider as liminal processes, based on the model proposed by Victor Turner (2013). The vulnerable condition of liminality brings significant psychological distress that is often overshadowed in the speeches by the migratory narrative of the search for success. Currently, these young people are experiencing the complications caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus that forces them to configure a new strategy and change in their projects. We consider that the migratory and identity phenomena in question go through the ambiguity of the consolidation of subjectivation in the face of the tension between colonizer / colonized, generating crises that, in view of the unpredictability caused by the pandemic, are evident, crossing life projects. Through the qualitative analysis of testimonials, we intend to investigate the result of this process.