ON THE TRAILS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN AMAZON: EXPERIENCES OF WARAO WOMEN AMID THE MIGRATION FLOW IN THE CITY OF PORTO VELHO-RO
Female experience. Warao women. Migratory flow. Amazon.
This dissertation's main focus is to address the Amazonian migratory flow impacts
experienced by Venezuelan indigenous women and to understand the main
difficulties they face in this process, in addition to observing the potential of this
population´s quality of life. The research was carried out with Warao indigenous
women, through the Bem Viver Warao Project, organized and implemented by
Cáritas Arquidiocesana de Porto Velho-RO. The study has a qualitative approach,
with participant observation and fieldwork. The following instruments were adopted:
interviews, mind maps and a workshop with the Thematic Roulette game. The
analysis is characterized by being subjective, with a phenomenological basis; to this
end, monitoring of these women was considered, seeking to understand their social,
group and family role, their experiences and the greatest difficulties they faced in
migration.The analysis highlights the need to address mobility within the Amazon, to
give visibility to traditional peoples who experience this transition beyond territorial
issues, highlighting their resistance and peculiar characteristics, both in their
language and culture of constituting their interests. It is extremely necessary to
address this migratory phenomenon in an Amazon currently at war and whose
biodiversity is shared by political and personal interests. In this way, it was possible to
embark on a migratory trajectory in which, in the midst of their difficulties, Warao
women have political and social plots that lead them to mobility, making their stories,
led by themselves.