Recepção e integração de novos estudantes nas residências universitárias: caso da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - UEM, em Maputo

Abstract

The present study had the field of analysis of University Residence no8 of UEM, in Maputo. With the theme: Reception and Integration of New Students in University Residences - “Case of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo” is an anthropological study, which analyzes and understands the processes and mechanisms for the reception and integration of students in UEM Student Residences, in general. To characterize the daily lives of newly arrived students in University Residences Students from UEM (RUEs), specifically from Residence no8, in Maputo and thus understand the interactions and relationships that are established (or are produced) between students (new and old tickets) and employees and try to understand the mechanisms through the which this reception and integration is processed and manifested, in a specific way. Data collection was carried out based on the ethnographic method combined with direct observation, semi-structured interviews and using the stories of each student's daily life. The theory adopted for the work, was the symbolic interactionism that allowed to operationalize the research. This theory argues that interaction is an element that constitutes the forms of behavior, and the nature of objects in the social world is symbolic. In this context, the subject social is at the same time an agent, for it interprets and symbolizes. The results of the study indicate that the reception and integration of the “newbies”, or “freshmen” translates into several lived experiences, which go through stages that start from the form of reception that involves aspects such as baptism, bullying, “bullying”, humiliation, violence and practice, that they translate a wide range of traditions, rituals, uses and customs that they are practiced and repeated in communities, academic over the years. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)