Back to the field: strategies to live poverty

Abstract

This study compares, in contrast, two studies done in places and at different times of São Paulo, the state, more developed, from an economic standpoint, from Brazil. Defines as a basic objective was to compare the perception that individuals and groups residing in the camp have on the countryside and city, using this insight to justify their migration or absence of them. Aims to highlight the relationships that those processes have with the experience of poverty. From the viewpoint of time, the first of the studies was conducted in the early 70s of the twentieth century, in the Central Region of the state, systematically exploring the motivations for staying in rural areas. The time was characterized by significant frequency of studies on rural-urban migration. The study then conducted against the hand occurred in migratory movements. The second study took place at the beginning of the century, in the Pontal, with individuals and groups who, for the opportunity to open rural settlements by the State Government in the region, carried out the urban-rural migration and land reform saw a way to stay on the field. The Pontal do Paranapanema, located in the region of Presidente Prudente, in the western state of Sao Paulo, is the second poorest region in the state. The moment represented by the first study was therefore upgraded from the concerns raised in the second survey. Stands, however, the similarity of representations that have the city, which makes the studies so far apart in time and space, meaning connections.