Migração de Famílias de Pescadores do Marajó para Áreas Periféricas de Belém: os Casos da Vila da Barca e do Barreiro

Abstract

Artisanal fishing is one of the most important activities in the Amazon. The population that depends on it has been facing several problems for its exercise, and is forced to adopt strategies in search of social reproduction, permanence in their traditional areas of residence and better living conditions (FURTADO, 1994; MORElRA; ROCHA, 1995), opting for migration to large urban centers and cities. In this sense, the present work deals with the migration of fishermen families from the municipality of Chaves, Marajó Island, state of Pará, who move to a peripheral area of Belém: the Barreiro neighborhood, focusing on the analysis of the trajectory of these families. Thus, we identify the factors that caused the migration (health, education, quality of life) and the social networks (kinship, solidarity) that engender the urban adaptation system in these new conflict areas, through which these families pass, aiming to know the variables of this trajectory. These facts imply in socioeconomic and cultural changes in the family structure, forcing them to integrate into a new urban way of life. The bibliographical research guided all moments of the ethnographic approach (field and office). Interviews were conducted with informants from Chaves who live in Barreiro, community leaders, representatives of the Pastoral Fisheries Commission (CPP) and of the Fishermen's Colony Z-22 of Chaves.