Da transnacionalização à apoteose: o perfil migratório brasileiro e o papel sociorreligioso das igrejas na Flórida Central

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Kelly Thaysy Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso embargado
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência das Religiões; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Migração brasileira; Empresas religiosas; Flórida Central; Brazilian migration; Religious companies; Central Florida; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/18722

This is an unprecedented field research on Brazilian migration and churches in Central Florida, which aims to identify the Brazilian migratory profile in the region, as well as the socio-religious role of the churches identified in the survey as the most popular ones. Predominant characteristics, such as economic, political, cultural and educational features are associated with Brazilian migrant generations. In Ana Maria Martes' doctoral thesis on Brazilian migration in Massachusetts, a political profile was observed. Her study identified the great first migratory generation in the United States in exodus from the political context in Brazil, and its sociodemographic profile reveals Brazilians with a medium level of education. Considering the study conducted by Maxine Margolis in New York (1998), a retired professor at the University of Florida, an economic exodus was identified, as Brazilians emigrated from Brazil due to unemployment. The work emphasized the conclusion that, in the sociodemographic profile, these people had a higher level of education. According to Ana Maria Martes, professor at USP, two points can be highlighted on migration flows that have occurred since 1994: the first is associated with crises, mainly arising from the political system in the country of origin and the second is associated with the objectives of migration policy of the destination country, which in this case is the United States. We also noticed the systematization of studies on Brazilian migratory flow in the United States and the theme of religion being approached only peripherally – a topic that also stands out in subsequent studies on the importance of this theme that appeared in some researches as a reference for the support indicated by Brazilian field. This way, it was noticed that there was an expressive increase of Brazilian churches in the United States. We mapped out regions which had a shortage of studies and we identified that in Central Florida there were no studies on the topic. Therefore, this is the first doctoral thesis in Science(s) of Religion(s), as well as the first reference in Human Sciences on the subject, which confirms its importance. We emphasize that in the churches we interviewed, researches of this type have not been carried out before, highlighting that they have become a field of study from this moment on, as well as online Surveys like ours in the region have not been carried out. For this study, we used an Intuitive Methodology, nomenclature suggested by ourselves, that identifies the difficulty of accessing this field, which had various techniques and methods for the results. Through an exploratory triangulation, we made main use of the life story when we built, with the reports, the rescue of the history of origin and religious purposes of the Brazilian churches or, in some cases, North American churches with a Brazilian department. Characterized by a qualitative and quantitative approach, this study had semi-structured interviews, informal interviews, online questionnaire for Brazilians in Central Florida and online questionnaire for Brazilians in Brazil and, in order to make this study possible, we rented the SurveyMonkey platform for a period of 1 year (2019-2020). We also adopted the self-collection, considering data from the researcher's participant observation, and the theoretical framework on the topic of migration and fundamental themes for the subject's social, religious and symbolic characterization, emphasizing that, in the latter, we indicate, with the hero theory proposed by Joseph Campbell, the Brazilian migratory journey from its origin in Brazil to its apotheosis in the United States. Involving oral and statistical reports, this Human Sciences field research proposes, from its results, important themes to be reviewed for Brazilian society and, in a comparative and affirmative way, we concluded a Brazilian exodus of great impact to the economic, social and educational system of the country. We consider this study of great relevance to various structural categories of this society, because they all refer to flaws of the political system and we are, therefore, awaiting favorable solutions from the Brazilian State to its Nation.