Involuntary immigrants experience in the Itajaí valley, Brazil

From segregation to survival strategies

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ID18993290
AuthorsFelipe Padilha (0000-0002-2765-9775, Curso de Psicologia, UNIVALI, Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, corresponding author), Gustavo Da Silva Machado (0000-0003-3744-3115, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Florianopolis, Brazil), Larissa Jansson (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil), Enis Mazzuco (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí)
Year2025
Volume31
Issue1
Pages395-419
Publication date2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1354067x241300987
OpenAlexW4404644101
LanguageEN
References cited27

Increasingly, people are forced to leave their countries looking for integrity and survival. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with people forced to migrate in the last few years to understand the processes of building immigrant communities and their paradoxical effect on the integration of immigrants in the Itajaí Valley, Brazil. In these interviews, they talked about their life stories, the migratory route and the relationships established with Brazilians and immigrants of their and other cultures and nationalities. After data analysis using categorical semantic analysis, forms of immigrant communities were identified due to external factors, as a consequence of xenophobic practices of social exclusion; and internal ones, from the search for identity continuity, maintenance of culture, mutual help and psychic support

Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

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