Emigração do Alto Minho e a saudade nas escritas familiares de oitocentos

• Main Author: Henrique Rodrigues
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2017-08-01
• Series: CEM: Cultura, Espaço & Memória
• Subjects: Emigration; mobility literacy; correspondence; saudade
• Online Access: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/16297.pdf

In this text on nineteenth -century emigration, documented displacements with passports issued in the district of Viana do Castelo in the nineteenth century, we will present some quantitative elements on mobility, where the variables related to gender, marital status, age, literacy and distribution for years have a prominent place, As a demographic perspective. Starting from the Passport Records Books of the Viana Civil Government Archive (AGC), we organized the movement data with a single passport, separating the cases of re -embarkation and second exits. After the first approach, we used the banal written correspondence in passport processes, and analyzed the problem of the longing for anonymous people, observed from the perspective of the emigrant. We want to see what this suffering represents, which afflicts those who are separated from theirs, the Self and the Other, and how these exiles communicated to whom the letter was the link of a chain of affections