Quando os semáforos de Belém falam Warao: da diáspora no contexto amazônico de hoje

When Belém traffic lights speak Warao: the diaspora in today's amazonian context

Abstract

The daily presence of people from the Warao people, who migrate from Venezuela, has become recurrent in Belém’s sidewalks, streets and traffic lights mostly in family groups, with a strong female presence. This article’s main objective is to annalyze the identifying and cultural issue of Warao people from their exodus until Belém, Pará, Brazilian Eastern Amazon; pilgrimages, displacements, the struggle for survival, welcoming and new ways of inhabiting are part of the agenda of venezuelan indigenous peoples; and the objective is also to understand the insertion of a people in the Brazilian context through civil society, in particular, through Caritas action. Methodologically, the research is done by the qualitative approach, carried out through the techniques of observation of the context of displacement, fixation and ways of insertion of Venezuelans in Belém/Pará. The bibliographic survey, supported by authors who dialogue with issues such as reading the city, discourse, hybrid cultures and identities; and documentary content that will seek to understand the migratory movement of the Warao through reports published in the written media. The study concludes that significant Warao reception actions are being developed in the region, despite all the complexity of the reception processes. The marks originating in the Warao group, in some way, clash with the remarkable characteristics of contemporary, urban and technologized society, which causes resignifications of the identity of this people and makes us think of the idea of hybrid cultures (CANCLINI), as a way of living and dreaming of Warao migrants.