Narrativas de re-existencias das mulheres Tapuya Kariri no trabalho doméstico laboral e os atravessamentos etnicoraciais, de classe e de gênero

Abstract

This research presents the narratives of re-existence of Tapuya Kariri indigenous women who perform or have performed domestic work as a source of income. The study brings the engendering of domestic work to the center of the discussion, denouncing the emergence of problematizing the markers that directly influence the lives of these women. Through a critical approach, it problematizes power structures and intensifies the ways of making visible the modes of re-existence of indigenous women in the labor context. The women invited to participate in this research are indigenous women from the Tapuya Kariri ethnic group who share their experiences of leaving their territory/home to perform domestic work in the city/other homes. They are indigenous women who are dedicated to their village's community struggle against the same colonial logic that, even today, continues to try to objectify and render them invisible. The research was conducted in the city of São Benedito, in the village of Gameleira, in northwestern Ceará. Our general objective is to learn about the narratives of re-existence of Tapuya Kariri women based on domestic work and its ethnicracial, class, and gender intersections. Our specific objectives are: to understand the processes of self-perception of Tapuya Kariri indigenous women in relation to the places they occupy in the domestic labor context; to analyze the affective web and the limits of intimacy that tension the relationship of servility and resistance of Tapuya Kariri women in the domestic labor context; to problematize how the intersubjective relationships between indigenous domestic workers and their white employers shape ways of life; and to identify the strategies of reexistence and confrontation of indigenous domestic workers in the dynamics of labor. The methodological approach of the research was qualitative. As instruments for producing meaning, we had two phases, one exploratory and descriptive, and the other interventional. For the exploratory and descriptive phase, we used life narratives. In the meaning production phase, we worked with Thematic Discussion Groups as a data collection technique. For the data analysis process, we used Thematic Analysis (TA), which has broad applicability and practicality and is considered an analytical method that is not well defined or recognized, but widely used in the field of psychology (Braun and Clarke, 2006). We noticed that domestic work, as a historically racialized space with colonial heritage, permeates the histories and identities of Tapuya Kariri women. However, we identified that these women have been reexisting, showing their ways of coping through their memories, collectivity, and ancestry, and especially through the revival of new ways of life.