Juventude Rural na região Celeiro do Rio Grande do Sul: Motivos para ficar, razões para voltar.

Abstract

This research seeks to unravel the reasons for the return and permanence of rural young people to the countryside, in the Celeiro region of the state, even following the opposite path to statistics, which points to around 85% of urbanization in Brazil. Young people leave the countryside for various reasons, including lack of income, autonomy, participation in rural property management, problems in family relationships, and young women are the ones who leave the countryside the most. In this qualitative research, the bibliographic review was developed around the themes Rural Youth, territory, region, rural development and public policies, in the areas of human and agrarian sciences, as contributors to the process of permanence of young people in the countryside, being researched the contributions of geographers with the proposed questions. For the action-research field work, the Entrepreneurship and Development Course for Rural Youth, carried out by the Training Center for Farmers of Bom Progresso, from Emater/RS – Ascar of the intermediate region of Ijuí, was the research laboratory, where 24 young people participated, from 10 municipalities. We sought to demonstrate the perspective of young people, the main subjects in focus, building analyzes and reflection results.