“UNDER THE CURSE OF CAIN”: STORY OF LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION IN SÃO PAULO

Abstract

This article has the goal to analyze the current international relations according the labor migrations. Approaching concepts of the economical system, the global capital structure and the structural unemployment we analyze questions about daily life and survival of the international immigrant workers. The methodology put into practice was the Oral History, which made possible the understanding of the subjective, quotidian and particularly dimensions of the labor migrations, also observing the historical and structural paradigm in which the textile industry in Brazil is involved together with the international traffic of peoples to the slave labor.