Reterritorialização, identidades e memórias dos moradores da Vila Piauí e da Vila Cearense – Araguaína-TO

Abstract

This study highlights the process of territorialization and identities through the memories of the migrants who form the communities: Vila Piauí and Vila Cearense, located in the city of Araguaína -TO, in an interdisciplinary approach based on narratives with the objective of analyzing the spatial occupation and its implications in the loss, to a certain extent, of the identity references of the protagonists of this research, as well as the (re) construction of their values in the new space during the territorial appropriation: deterritorializing and reterritorializing by re-meaning the senses that are mobilized in another space gradually transformed into a built place. It is through orality that Northeastern migrants narrate their stories using memory mechanisms to express their feelings imbricated in the lived territorialities and reveal their identities in the space where they construct and rebuild them decentralized, dynamic, distinct and multiple which metamorphose into a continuum. This research was developed based on the Oral History method, precisely using the Life History technique by an interdisciplinary bias based on a semi-structured interview, analyzing the narratives of the migrants who, by force of memory, although fragmented, fictionalized, silenced, forgotten and selected, express the senses that motivated them to seek a new space to build their place. During the survey fifteen migrants were interviewed among them, thirteen Northeastern, that is, the majority. We emphasize that the participants of this study play the role of protagonists narrating their life stories and the facts that guide the phenomenon of migration. This social event is narrated in a particular way by each migrant impressing meanings in the course of the narratives under the process of territorialization. Thus, the history of the city of Araguaína is narrated from the look of these migrants.