Migration and everyday of cane cutters of Ererê/CE municipality

hands on the machete, eyes for the calendar

Abstract

Brazil has been the largest producer of sugarcane since 1980, with São Paulo being the largest producer in the country today, with more than 51% of the total. The open labor market, despite the modernization of the poultry industry, still contributes to the country's migratory dynamics. In this way, the present work sought to understand the daily life of migrant workers in the interior of São Paulo. The contextualization analyzes the seasonal migration of sugarcane cutters from Ererê-CE, who leave their municipality towards the city of Avaré - SP. For that, a bibliographic research was done around the ideas of Costa and Clesps (2008), Stecanela (2009), Moraes et al. (2011), Queiroz (2011), Santos and Souza (2012), Beltrão (2012) and Tuan (2013). In addition, interviews with the sugarcane cutters were done through the Whatsapp application. Thus, the present study identified that the main reason for the displacement of sugarcane cutters is the lack of employment in the municipality where they reside. Thus, the migrants move to work in the cane cut in search of better financial conditions. It was found that the living conditions of the migrants who cut cane in the Avaré is a work with excessive hours, consequently, generating an exhaustive activity, besides the inappropriate food, with precarious conditions of life. With this, it is perceived that with each more intense period of work with the machete in hand, the Safristas migrants are anxious and hopeful with the purpose of return to the place of origin.