An interpretative analysis about the communication practices in the identity constructions of Haitian migrants in Curitiba-PR

Abstract

Haitians have become known to the Brazilian population, especially in the country's large capitals. Haitians immigrants appear in our imaginary under different representational forms, usually mediated by mass media discourses. This article aims to discuss how certain communicative processes that occur outside the official "communication circuit" (TV, newspapers, radio and traditional media sites) destabilize hegemonic discourses for a "transnational citizenship" of rights and dignity to the Haitian migrant who comes to Brazil and, more especially, to Curitiba, in Paraná. The article invokes the relation among the migration theme, the contemporary globalization process, social networks that can act as counter-hegemonic discursive forms, and the methodological perspectives that extrapolate the quantitative data to bring to immigrants an evaluative perspective on their identities. The communicative practices of Haitians immigrants, in Curitiba represent forms of resistance to face the process of life accelerated by globalization, specially those connected to identities; in the end, we can show, as result, how the Haitians have used several media interactions to presentthemselves in the new territory.