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Este artigo discute a linguagem dos símbolos entre os bolivianos em São Paulo a partir de uma perspectiva antropológica, procurando inferir os significados que práticas e objetos da cultura material, veiculados no contexto das festas devocionais, passam a ter numa nova conjuntura. No caso em análise, o contexto apresenta uma especificidade que é a discriminação _ razão pela qual esses imigrantes estão mobilizados em veicular uma nova imagem de si mesmos.

Abstract This paper examines how Haitian migration connecting Haiti to Brasília is enacted through Latin America. The empirical data come from an ethnographic study of Haitians in Brasilia. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with 34 migrants to reconstruct their mobilities. We explore how the Haitians' historical practice of living on the move has enabled them to deal with border controls and develop tactics to circulate through several Latin America countries, including Brazil. We argue that their migration to the Brazilian capital can neither be understood as a linear movement characterized by an established Haiti-Brasilia connection nor defined as movement to a place where these migrants attempt to settle down. Rather, we show that the recent presence of Brasilia in the mobility of these Haitians has to be understood in the context of a vast dynamic meshwork of places, people and information.