SOCIOCULTURAL CONTACT AND HUMAN COGNITION: SUPERDIVERSE RELATIONS BETWEEN SPANISH-SPEAKING WOMEN RESIDENT IN RECIFE-PE
Female superdiversity. Migration. Mindset. Self-efficacy. Spanish-speaking countries.
This work is a scientific production related to the Spanish-speaking migrant women living in Recife and the social landscapes in which they are inserted. The purpose of this ongoing research is to mainly map and recognize the demands faced by this population group, especially in relation to social factors that arise from linguistic aspects and that have cognitive impacts. For its production, the investigation conforms to an ethnographic approach in a qualitative method based on the analysis of data extracted from the responses to an electronic questionnaire that aims to recognize the daily life of migrants. It is also a way of giving voice to the people who experience it in a context of intercultural contact. To shed light on this research, the theoretical discussion focuses on authors who discuss culture, cultural identity, mindset, self-efficacy, multiculturalism and superdiversity. We mainly base our analysis on Vertovec (2007), Hall (2003[2000]), Deweck (2017), Bandura (1997) and some reflections by Bagno (2007). The discussions of the partial results are linked to the social scenario, since, based on these analyses, mainly concernig in relation to the precariousness of public policies aimed at migrants in Recife, we outline the next steps and reflections. The partial results point to a marginalization of migrant needs, which can be alleviated when there are effective actions, and the opposite - more commonly observed - produces a lack of incentive and a low rate of use for an effective change in the social scenario. This dissertation demonstrates that analyzing public policies, linguistic relations and the sociocultural scenario are essential for identifying the needs and recognizing the realities of female migrants, configuring a scenario of intercultural rapprochement facilitated by the relationship between research and society.