A vida entre duas cidades: deslocamentos pendulares, trabalho e lugar

Abstract

In any aspect that one wants to see, urbanization rises up as an undisputed force in our days. This phenomenon occurs on a planetary scale is articulated in a relationship of reciprocal conditioning with the globalization of the economy and the productive restructuring. From this articulation, the most diverse consequences unfold at all levels of social existence. Among the new social phenomena that arise from the combination of these structural processes, we witness a mutation in population mobility. In the same way that there is an economic exploitation that is more territorially widespread, there is a resizing of the population by the territory as well. Classical migrations between rural and urban and between underdeveloped regions of the country and industrial states are reconfigured. In this scenario, commuting starts to appear as a modality of urban displacement that gains greater expression with each demographic census. In the contemporary world shaken off by changes in the material basis of capitalism, men and women increasingly need islands of solidity, meaningful places and relationships of belonging. Focused on commuting to work, I intend to comprehend how commuters build their spaces of security and stability and how they respond to globalizing pressures while building their habitation, which means the very way of being in the world. Therefore, I intent to capture the meanings of a pendulum life for work based on experiences described by the commutators. For this reason, I look up in the speeches of commuting aspects of their daily lives that allow me to express this way of living the urban reality, and ultimately, the world, in times of intense fragmentation of the urban space. Commuting to work is inextricably connected to a new territorial division of labor, the new expansionist strategies of the global company, the transformations in the urban space sponsored by the real estate market and the primacy of international financial capital. However, all these far-reaching processes affect people's lives, and they face, albeit thoughtlessly, the challenges facing them. Thus, I propose to understand, without losing sight of the universality underlying the problem, how people face and realize this experience, how they operate daily in this situation, what resources they mobilize in order to build and preserve the stability of their world. This thesis aimed to apprehend the relationship between work, urban mobility and place, within the scope of those who practice commuting to work, between the cities of Maceió and Arapiraca. For this, both structural factors and the nature of the individual experiences of the commuters themselves were considered. The research had a qualitative-quantitative approach; a mixed type survey, with the sequential collection of quantitative and qualitative data.