Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: CHARLOT JN CHARLES

HAITIAN DIASPORA IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF PLACE CONSTRUCTION IN MANAUS, PORTO VELHO, SÃO PAULO AND RIO DE JANEIRO

Haitian Diaspora; Phenomenology; Good Living; Ubuntu; Location.

In this research we will study the location of the Haitian diaspora in Brazil, particularly in Manaus, Porto Velho, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. For this, we used as theoretical/methodological support the “oral history” technique proposed by Meihy (2005) and Bachelard’s phenomenology (1993). With the assumption of human and cultural geography, following the example of authors such as: Dardel (2011); Claval (1995, 2011); Tuan (1971, 1977, 1980), as well as: Acosta (2008); Handerson (2015); Jn Charles (2020); Noguera (2012); Tutu's (2020); Silva (2023); Oliveira (2014); Silva (2016, 2017); and other bibliographies, and reports that help us in carrying out this doctoral research. The subjects interviewed in this research are of Brazilian and Haitian nationality who have lived in Brazil for at least five years. According to the research data and analyses, there is a location of the Haitian diaspora in the country. In this process we discover language as one of the central elements in its integration into Brazilian society, other elements are welcoming, solidarity, and resilience. There are people who see Brazil as a place to stay and others as a place to travel to other countries. The Brazilian people, in turn, see the Haitian people as fighting, hard-working people, capable of pursuing their dreams, facing many barriers.