Migrações contemporâneas: um estudo de caso da mobilidade universitária para a Unifesspa-Marabá/Pa

Abstract

The research aimed to identify and analyze the dynamics of university mobility for Unifesspa – Marabá/PA. First, a theoretical analysis was executed on the concepts of population mobility, analyzed by several authors over the years. Discuss the role of urban displacements in the formation of society and the city of Marabá, as well as debating the elevation of Marabá in the condition of medium-sized city and the importance of the university center for this condition. To analyze the socio-spatial profile of the migratory movements carried out by students who seek Unifesspa for training in higher education, what type of displacement is carried out by them in order to discover their cities/states of origin in which they move to attend higher education at the Federal University of the South and Southeast of Pará-Unifesspa, and to discover the factors that lead these individuals to carry out this displacement. In view of this, as a form of data collection, general knowledge questionnaires were applied to migrant students from the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 classes of various Unifesspa courses. Although there are data that demonstrate the growth of university mobility as a form of migration, as well as on the functional evolution of medium-sized cities through the interiorization of higher education, there are still few studies specifically on these subjects. Thus, it is necessary to research specifically aimed at analyzing the factors that most influence student mobility across the territory and the role of medium-sized cities in this mobility.