Cross-border commuter mobility

ISBN-13: 9786206369202 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str.

Giovane da Silva Lozano

Opis

The aim of this text was to analyse and reflect on the phenomenon of cross-border commuting. The subjects researched were street workers known as ambulantes, more specifically those who sell products such as fruit, yerba mate and gum candies at traffic lights and at specific points in the city, such as busy avenues and streets. These informal workers travel every day from the Paraguayan municipalities of Ciudad del Este and Puerto Presidente Franco to the streets of Foz do Iguaçu/BR to sell their goods. At the end of the day they return to their country of origin, thus configuring cross-border commuting. Ethnographic research was used to verify this phenomenon, using a semi-structured questionnaire.

O autorze

Graduated in BA and BSc Social Sciences from the State University of Western Paraná - UNIOESTE. Member of the Border, State and Social Relations Research Laboratory - LAFRONT. Area of interest: labour, social movements and illegal practices in border regions.