Mediações comunicativas de empatia e resiliência no senso de pertencimento dos imigrantes bolivianos de São Paulo

Resumo (EN)

The purpose of this thesis is to present ways of life that conform and perform the Bolivians in the city of São Paulo. It contemplates the role of belonging practices in this group, the necessary condition for them to settle and not to be returned to their homeland. The role of culture is an issue addressed throughout the text because it is an element of connection between the homeland and the new land, it promotes miscegenations and hybridizations in the city of São Paulo, and in this scenario, the “Praça Kantuta”, Bolivian stronghold in the city, deserved special attention because it is the place of greater visibility for this group. Mimesis gains a prominent role in the development of the text considering it participates in the social action and the urban movements of this contingent. The native traditions revived in the metropolis of São Paulo were mapped and exploratory studies of observational character were used. Being the studies of the communication the main element of the thesis, radios, newspapers, blogs and other means were researched, composing the communicational framework of these Bolivians. Concepts and practices of empathy and resilience compose the text and were worked from the perspective of communication. The thesis was theoretically based on the theorists of the fields of anthropology, sociology and culture, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Christoph Wulf, Edgar Morin and Octavio Ianni; of communication, Norval Baitello Jr., Malena Contrera, Jésus Martin-Barbero, Néstor Canclini and Eugênio Trivinho; and empathy and resilience, Frans de Waal and Boris Cyrulnik, among others.