Narrativas em trânsito: decolonialidade, história pública e as famílias senegalesas muçulmanas em Caxias do Sul

Abstract

This study is linked to the research line Fontes e Acervos in Pesquisa e Docência em História in the professional post-graduation program in History at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul. The Senegalese immigration brought to Caxias do Sul (RS) the African culture and the Senegalese Islam religion, new elements to the city. Based on this, this research analyzes the stablished relationship between the Senegalese Muslim families and Caxias do Sul, in order to comprehend the process of family reunification of immigration and to make explicit the relationship between the family base and the religious aspect, specially of Senegalese women, which evidences, as of 2016, a new moment of the migratory process. Motivated by the family reunification, Senegalese women occupy specific roles within the society, being women, mothers and Muslims. Because they are African, black and Muslim people, there are a series of barriers and prejudices that will be present in the displacement and reception in the migrated city. As a result, decoloniality is used as a theoretical perspective, since the 15th century, a model of social classification of individuals is stablished based on different racist and ethnicist markers. Visually accessible, there markers determine the subordinate place that different people occupy, having their humanity and intellectual property relativized. Furthermore, based on part of the Senegalese community?s demand for being heard about the trajectory that belongs to them and the process of making their history in the city, Oral History is used as methodology. Therefore, interviews were used, mostly of women, aiming at the protagonism of female narratives. And also photographs taken by the researcher during the course of the research were analyzed, based on photography as a testimony through time and that allows the presentification of this through visuality. Relating this dissertation to the teaching of the History subject, the research's results are communicated and exposed to different audiences, through an exhibition project that foresees photographic work, production of a catalog, urban intervention and occupation. The exhibition brings a more humanized look about the immigrations of the 21st century, especially about the Muslim Senegalese families in Caxias do Sul, contributing to a more just, equitable, anti-racist and democratic society. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]