Juventude rural, entre ficar e partir: a dinâmica dos jovens rurais da comunidade de Cerro Azul, Palma Sola/SC

Abstract

This research analyzes the social factors related to the process and the dynamics that are established with the rural youth from going out and getting the / in the countryside. The discussion is based on a study among young rural community of Cerro Azul in the municipality of Palma Sola, confined to the western region of the state of Santa Catarina. This community, made from the 1940s, had historically its economic base in agriculture and demographic guided. However, currently there is an intermittent decrease of its population, being predominantly young population that is decreasing. This change is justified by the large number of young people who have left the countryside and agricultural activities to reside in urban areas. But not all young people who choose to leave the field. Some remain in the community and are directly involved with farming and agriculture. However these are not decisions of no return. As far as getting out are provisional and procedural decisions. Are phenomena that occur as related behaviors, fluids and not necessarily defined. Speaking generally references the expression "seeing how it goes", that is, even if there is the intention to remain there sure between going and staying. Stay is a temporary decision and subject to change, given the sense of life course and social conditions made available and achievable. There is an expectation and a desire to see themselves embodied improvements in rural areas that are described as "opportunities" - which reads: job opportunities in the field and take the actual conditions of agricultural activity. We discuss, in summary, the factors related to the decision to leave and to stay as well as the dynamics that young people who are in rural areas are in life that play.