“Coming and going”

the sense of place and migration among rural young people

Abstract

This work is part of the partial studies of the dissertation research, which seeks to understand how the sense of place and migrating is triggered in the migratory process of rural young people from Santana do Mundo Novo community, Juramento municipality, Minas Gerais, and also seeks to research the motivations and consequences of this migration. Therefore, we opted for a qualitative methodology, with bibliographic review and field research, permeated by the contributions of phenomenology, anthropology and humanist geography. For data collection, semi-structured interviews are being conducted, which will be complemented with a focus group workshop to be held in the second half of 2019. In addition, field diary, photographs and secondary data are also used to contextualize the place. The community, which has migration as part of its history, remains a space for migratory flows, among other forms of spatial mobility. Rural and urban take on new forms of interaction in the current context, giving rise to forms of mobility that sometimes become part of a way of life, being necessary to understand the meaning of this movement “back and forth” for those who experience it.