Immigration, ethnic borders and sociabilities: theoretical issues

Abstract

The reference for this text are the subjects grouped socially and culturally from a process of emigration/immigration, whose structures refer back to the migrant societies. Following the settlement in Curitiba, the group gradually transforms itself when in contact with Brazilian society and with other groups of immigrant origin, erecting ethnic boundaries. One of the directions of the research involved conducting an analysis of reproductive behaviors of immigrants and descendants. The goal, at this stage, is to overcome the why to try to solve the problem of how, despite the absence of “qualitative” documentation that would allow us to discern the intimacy of the sampled couples. The purpose of the text is to pose some theoretical and methodological questions considering the role of individuals within the concept of sociability. That is, in the
sphere of individual-society relations, the idea is to consider the theoretical variables that could help understand what the numbers seem to expose. For this, interpersonal relationships are taken into consideration - including intra and intergenerational living - within the boundaries of the aforementioned borders. To this end, the analysis favors contexts that allow for the synthesizing of ethnicity dynamics. The text also seeks a theoretical-methodological balance focusing on my research, oriented, in a broader epistemological sense, by "demographic" studies; baseline data were sampled from the methodology of family reconstitution.