Hospitality and the search for the ideal community in Maria da Fé, MG, Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4867.v29i3p370-386Keywords:
Hospitality, Community, Migration, Tourism, Maria da Fé-MGAbstract
This article aims to analyze the encounters of outsiders, whether they are migrants or tourists, with the host community in the context of migration movements. The starting point of this research corresponds to the potato crisis in the municipality of Maria da Fé, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It caused the intensification of migrants’ arrival, attracted by the low price of its lands as well as its natural farming. In addition, the city is also a destination that attracts tourists because of its low temperatures and in location close to the natural beauties of the mountain chain called Serra da Mantiqueira. As for methodology of the study, we chose the oral history method, complemented by observation and bibliographical research. Outsiders, when undertaking their displacement, have in mind the ideal community, imagining they would find safeness and be immediately accepted. However, after meeting local people they realize the distance between the ideal community and the real one. The definition of community as a cozy circle reveals an identification with the motives of the migration movements to Maria da Fé, as this place looks like an ideological locus. However, beyond some facilities for making life easy in a small city and the natural beauties there is the social issue of “being in the community” related to the integration process that sets up the feeling of welcome for some people.
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