Condições de vida e moradia de trabalhadores nos limites urbanos: bairro Shopping Park (Uberlândia-MG, 1988-2013)

Abstract

The aim of this work was to demonstrate the formation process of Shopping Park neighborhood in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, from 1988 to 2013. To give visibility to the trajectories, experiences, struggles, limits and pressures of migrant workers was essential to understand how these subjects are excluded to further districts from the city center. Dialogue constituted the way to capture forms of surviving and creation of coexistence bonds in the context of exclusions and contradictions embedded in that city. In urban limits, such workers fight for permanence in Uberlândia, where social relations are established both with locals as with government, religious institutions and entrepreneurs. These bonds are perceived as strategies of these residents who therefore battle for their rights. The cited experiments expose the learnings that workers experience in the conviviality of articulations in both Shopping Park as in other districts where they lived. It is noteworthy that the knowledge of rural life brought by the migrants blend with bureaucratic processes and pressures that are struggled to stay in the city limits.