Vidas em trânsito: juventude rural e mobilidade (s) pelo acesso ao Ensino Superior

Abstract

This research conveys a proposal to think about rural youth through mobility, considering a universe of individuals making the daily movement from rural to urban areas in order to pursue their studies in Higher Education Institutions, while keeping their residence in the rural areas of origin. The research features interlocutors from the state of Ceará, Brazil, who run the distance of 160 km on a daily basis: they start off in the district of Araquém, in the municipality of Coreaú, with destination to Sobral, the nearest city with the offer of undergraduate courses in public and private Higher Education Institutions. After their classes, they return to their places of residence. The main goal of this research is to analyze the relation among the trajectories of rural youth in university, seeking access to higher education, with mobility as a field of possibility that exists within the analyzed social configuration, considering that the movement between rural and urban areas reconfigures youth subjectivities. The text is crafted with the material produced during one year and a half of observations conducted alongside with the students‘ lives in three main spaces: the university, located in Sobral, which represents the urban space as well as where they return from with institutionalized knowledge, taking the magnificent trophy of the undergraduate diploma to the rural areas; the transportation, which enables spatial mobility, and it‘s the locus where students forge several kinds of sociability throughout the years of undergraduate studies (04 years in general); and, lastly, the rural district of Araquém in the municipality of Coreaú, place of origin and residence of the research subjects, which stands as well as a place of kinship, friendship and work relations.