Revista Brasileira de Historia
Volume 32, Issue 64, 2012, Pages 149-165

Returnees: Some reflections on the social conditions and survival of enslaved rural migrant workers in the present time [Os retornados: Reflexões sobre condições sociais e sobrevivência de trabalhadores rurais migrantes escravizados no tempo presente] (Article) (Open Access)

da Rocha C.C.*
  • a Universidade Estadual do Piauí (Uepi), Campus Poeta Torquato Neto, Centro de Ciências Humanas e Letras (CCHL), Rua João Cabral, 2231 - Pirajá, 64002-200 - Teresina - PI, Brazil

Abstract

This article is concerned with the study of rural workers in Barras, Piauí, who repeatedly migrate to the states of Pará, Mato Grosso and Goiás and experience forms of slave-like labor. After a long period living away from home, they arrive full of news about hard work and exploitation, low wages, illusions, hardships, and the deceptions practiced by the contractors, which makes them want to return to their own world. After the end of the inter-harvest period, they go again, dressed in their best clothes as a feast day, imbued with the desire to materialize dreams, amazed by a world whose dangers pose challenges to them.

Author Keywords

Slave labor Migration and return

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874994493&doi=10.1590%2fS0102-01882012000200009&partnerID=40&md5=d13ac448876028f4a48ec2207da2aa0d
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-01882012000200009
ISSN: 01020188
Original Language: Portuguese