Construindo um novo lar e novos laços de solidariedade entre vizinhos: estudo sobre reassentamentos no Bairro de Muhalaze na Matola

Abstract

The present work analyzes the transformations promoted by resettlement in life of families displaced from one neighborhood to another. In the literature review, I identified two approaches, the first looks at resettlement as a process in which households face difficulties in changing their lives and adapting to the new context. In turn, the second approach criticizes the first and looks at the issue resettlement as an issue that needs approaches that confront several theories and disciplines. In the work, the qualitative approach and the use of the ethnographic method were privileged. In suits theorists this research adopted the symbolic interactionist approach, where we sought understand how in the process of social interactions subjects take ownership of new spaces, the way resettled individuals create a sense of belonging with the new residence space and the neighborhood relationship with the new neighbors. In the collected ethnographic data, we found that of the 120 households resettled, 37 households abandoned or transferred their homes. At the However, there are other households that have outlined strategies for adapting to the new space of residence, through a phenomenon of solidarity, where individuals build their their ties in order to overcome difficulties, the spirit of help among the resettled in cases of need, one supports the other. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)