Uma mais uma é sempre mais que duas”: configurações e dinâmicas das redes sociais das domésticas migrantes

Abstract

The present thesis aims to understand the migratory dynamics of the domestic ones through the Analysis of Social Networks. The mobility of these women to domestic work in Montes Claros, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, Brasília and other cities are woven through networks of social relations, which include family and compatriots, both in the North of Minas Gerais and in the main cities of destination. By proposing to approach the networks by removing them from the amalgam of structures for the dynamization of their contents, it seeks to emerge the relevance of the social bonds and the collective action of these women. Through qualitative and quantitative data, we seek to explore the social networks of domestic migrants from the North of Minas Gerais and the particular logic of the articulation of this social group. For that, the empirical research was carried out with two networks of domestic, a movement production network, that extends from the Minas Gerais municipalities of Mirabela and São Francisco to Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and the Federal District - migration gives networks. And another network that is in full phase of the migratory process, coming from cities near Montes Claros, residing in the neighborhood of Lago I Village - migration at network. A combination of research sources was used in the methodological design, including: workshops, in-depth interviews, direct observation, questionnaire “name generator”, social network map and Gephi 0.9.2 software. The data collected by these instruments were concatenated by content analysis under the focus of sociological theories. The results reveal the feminine centrality in the availability of the resources activated by their networks, so a key characteristic of this mode of collective organization is the rapid activation, the strong ties of identification and the belonging. Mobility and sharing of gift, reciprocity, mutual help and support are values that create and recreate the webs of social networks.