Mobility, tourism and diversity in Maria da Fé/MG: determinants of permanence

Abstract

This article aims to identify and analyze how tourism influences mobility in Maria da Fé - MG and to what extent it constitutes an element of migrant settlement in the community. From the agricultural past to the development of tourism, as a solution to the crisis of the monoculture in the 1990s, the objective of the present study is to understand the factors that motivate the mobility and the settlement of migrants in the city. The methodology chosen for this study is oral history, however direct observation and bibliographic research complement the corpus of the research. Mobility is analyzed in the field of migration movements. Diversity and alterity are pointed out as possible factors of migrant settlement in this locality.