Entre a casa e a rua: o cotidiano de migrantes universitários em tempos pandêmicos

Abstract

This work is fruit of my deterritorialization, reterritorialization and territorialization as migrant person. My implication is born on my first migration, the first one of two more that follows, and flows the wish to research the ephemeral daily life of the city, taking migrant college students as target public, like myself, which came to Natal/RN. Considering the migration while a process which redefine territory relations of a person with her dwelling space, composing new existential and material territory, this research aims to know the Covid-19’s impact on daily life of migrant college students by having as specifics objectives: portray the migrant college student’s daily lives at home and in the streets; and know which coping were being used by to deal with the pandemic daily. For that, the chosen methods were the cartography and the virtual ethnography. The research co-producers’ experiences are presented by their co-produced photographs and narratives, integrating the fotoescrevivência as methodology. Therefore, some analytics categories were followed, they are: Migration; relation with Natal city; Relation with university; by having as transversal theme the new Covid-19’s pandemic. As results, it was noticed that deterritorialization and territorialization are fundamental to comprehend the people’s space and existential mobility. The molecular and scape line’s tracing was primordial for these migrant people could reterritorialize and, specially, to resist crisis and pandemic times.