Formação social e desenvolvimento local do município de Tomé-Açu : um estudo sobre o impacto da imigração japonesa a partir da perspectiva dos grupos sociais locais

Abstract

The present work aims to describe and analyze, through the recovery of memories, the power relations between Japanese immigration and other social groups in the Vale do Acará region, with emphasis on the formation of the municipality of Tomé-Açu. The problem revolves around discovering the main challenges and advantages of this cultural interaction for local development. The work is very important to understand the paths of human development in the region, as well as the social identity of the municipality of Tomé-Açu, which illuminates the construction of development planning for the future. The theoretical foundation is post-structuralist based on the thinking of Michel Foucault, especially the work called: Security, Territory and Population, which works on social relations as relations of force and discourses as sources of construction of human subjectivities. The methodology involved, for historical contextualization, a bibliographical survey and semi-structured interviews with open questions to recover memories. The compilation of memories helped us understand how the processes of power relations occurred, in the perception of those who lived or inherited memories of this unique transnational contact that characterizes the region, the Japanese immigration.