FROM MIGRANT PEASANTS TO URBAN WORKERS: survival and living conditions of migrant workers in Teresina (1970)

Abstract

The present work, which is part of a dissertation text about the coming of Ceará migrants to Piauí from the years 1940 to 1970, aims to analyze a stage of the migratory process of some migrant narrators whose trajectories culminated in their definitive displacement to the city of Teresina, capital city of Piauí, after their survival experiences in other municipalities also belonging to EntreRios. Thus, we follow through the common temporality of departures, passages, and fixations in new spaces, the displacement that profoundly marks the lives of subjects, since there are radical changes in how they obtain their means of survival. In addition to the orality that we highlight as a necessary methodological approach to understand the multiple experiences of these subjects and their respective subjectivities, we dialogued with official sources and newspapers of the time. A careful reading of the historiography of Piauí combined with the reflection on the moral economy proposed by E. P. Thompson (1998) configure the constitution of this study.