Paper short abstract:

This work discusses how diverse movements and temporalities intertwine and influence migrants' perceptions of migratory projects. Based on an ongoing research on Brazilian emigrants coming to Europe, I explore the effects of mobility on way they define their transnational condition.

Paper long abstract:

The present work aims to reflect upon how migrating involve different forms of dislocation, marked also by different temporalities: the frequency and speed of information exchanged through new media, the preparation to travel, the waiting times in airports, the continuous search for work, the strategies of insertion in destination countries and the different personal and emotional histories that come out of that. All this create a visible thread between the context of origin and the one of reception; however, the mobility that connects these places is itself a place where the migration project is re-signified, changed, or intensified. That is, the dislocation that characterises the migration phenomena seems to have a fundamental role in the construction of the subjectivity of these migrants.

Taking as basis for the reflection my ongoing research on migrants coming from Brazil to Europe (particularly Portugal and UK), I intend to see - through their life histories and social practices - how narrations of their movements in the whole process of transnational dislocation showed their influence in creating or transforming images about the reception context, about their family and individual projections, about belonging feelings. The research shows that the crossing of different temporalities of actions and processes involved in this mobility also affects these migrant's personal and social perceptions about their future, their network of relations, and their identity narratives.