Maison du brésil: Territory, nation and internationalism in Paris

This paper presents some reflections on the Maison du Brésil. My aim is to analyze the meanings that characterize it as a Brazilian territory in Paris, as a temporary residence for Brazilian elite researchers. It looks at the international circulation of students and researchers who live there and have an educational experience of multiple dimensions, while experiencing deterritorializing identities and there consequences in a residential space that is simultaneously public and private. Based on documentary analyze and ethnographical fieldworks, I present some aspects of its history and daily life, specially how the brazilness is used to support the elite crisis of identities. I will focus on the “uses and abuses” of the nation and of the region, to analyze the particularities of established mediation of living in the Maison du Brésil to the education and international insertion of some researchers.