Da cidade grande para Alto Paraíso de Goiás: um estudo qualitativo sobre processos migratórios recentes

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the migration realized by some people who left big cities towards Alto Paraíso de Goiás, a small tourist city situated in Chapada dos Veadeiros. With the purpose to comprehend this phenomenon, were fulfilled interviews with seven local citizens who done this movement. This monography begins presenting, in a diachronic perspective, the social dynamics of the Alto Paraíso city, and incorporating the vison of the residents and the tourists about it. Subsequently, approach the motivations which leads the interviewed to settle the moving to Alto Paraíso in their life projects, besides exposing the conditions to it inside the field of possibilities presented by them. Thereafter, investigate the impacts of this decision in their trajectory. For this end, utilize a bibliography about life story, memory, project and field of possibilities. In conclusion, the interviewed demonstrated a motivation in common, the will to change the lifestyle they had in the big cities which they lived before.