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- Title
A Casa do Brasil de Lisboa: uma associação de Acolhida.
- Authors
Karam Brum, Ceres
- Abstract
This paper originates from the strangeness of finding in Europe a plurality of Houses named "Casas do Brasil" (Brazil Houses) that aren't necessarily constituted as housing buildings. In this sense, in this paper, I'll give continuity to the reflections regarding the Casas do Brasil in Europe I've researched in Paris, Madrid and Munich, and I address the experience carried out between 2016 and 2021 in Lisbon's Casa do Brasil (CBL). To construct an understanding regarding CBL's configuration throughout its existence, I focus on aspects of its history and operations in the universe of immigrant association in Portugal. Lisbon's Casa do Brasil has been doing and important work for guaranteeing the immigrants' rights, especially Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. They look for it with the intention to be informed and to "dialog" with the Portuguese state through a set of activities/services offered by Lisbon's Casa do Brasil. With the purpose of introducing them, I elaborate on a few reflections regarding the Acolhida Group. The group has weekly meetings in Casa do Brasil and/or online meetings for immigrants who wish to talk about their experiences in Portugal. The discussion that spans this text and connects it with the anthropology of the house, because of the name Casa do Brasil, highlights the house as a place of collective and individual symbolization that extrapolates its dimension of housing, alluding to the notions of nation-house, territorialization, (de)territorialization of identities and immigrant solidarity in Europe. Thus, what meanings does the word "house" acquire in this perspective? What connects the Casas do Brasil in Europe and which are the particularities of Lisbon's Casa do Brasil? I intend to compare these issues throughout the paper with the purpose of analyzing the work developed in CBL and its importance to the immigrant community in Portugal.
- Subjects
LISBON (Portugal); IMMIGRANTS' rights; TEMPORARY housing; CULTURAL identity; DETERRITORIALIZATION
- Publication
Intersecoes: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinares, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1517-6088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/irei.2021.60644