Memories of Migrants in the Pandemic: Narratives of Resistance in Confronting Racism
People move around the world most of the time in search of a better life, many flee from chaotic scenarios caused by natural disasters, political and economic crises. Added to these events, globalization determines the living conditions of many individuals, leading to an increase in displacement, such as in immigrants’ case. However, they end up silenced, invisible, subject to racial discrimination, xenophobia, without social, economic and educational access, aggravated by the pandemic. The objective is to bring up narratives understood here as recovered and relived memories of these people, as a way to empower the community that they are inserted, in order to envision themselves as agents of their own history, responsible for their destiny and for the social processes they experience. Based on Martin-Baró (1979), through the narratives, we will seek ways to heal the social and emotional wounds experienced, the “de-ideologization” of experiences. This research involves the creation of the unprecedented-viable (FREIRE, 1970/1987) generating solid foundations to go beyond the limits of real situations, whose strength lies in viable solutions, but not yet conceived. The methodological proposal is carried out through Critical Collaboration Research (Magalhães, 2011) based on the intentional transformation of contexts with the involvement of all participants.