Carto(foto)grafando o encontro de migrantes brasileiros na China

Abstract

The mobilized encounters in the migrations between cultures are an emergent thematic that involve many Brazilian citizens and other citizens of the world. This report presents a research investigating the encounter of Brazilians expatriates with China, seeking to understand the processes, intensities and affections that emerged from this encounter. In such a way we use the carto(photo)graphy, meaning the interlacement of the cartography with the photograph. The exploration of the field occurred during nine months in the city of Dongguan, situated in south China. An intervention was carried through with ten Brazilian residents in this city. Each expatriate produced photographs about their encounters. Images that were later discussed in workshops. The cartographic attention allowed us the election of some photographs that were analyzed by process of creation and meaning. The photographs were also related to field comment. The Brazilian expatriates create an existential territory in which they share the difficu