<p dir="ltr">How do we navigate complex social situations? What tools, strategies, and experiences do we use in our attempts to connect with each other? This project delves into the pervasive nature of performativity in everyday life, particularly within the context of Vietnamese Americans navigating predominantly white geographies in the Midwest. Drawing from theories of performance, spatial dynamics, labor geography, and racial capitalism, this project explores how Vietnamese Americans strategically leverage their identities and cultural heritage in spaces such as Vietnamese restaurants. These performances serve as strategies for survival and legibility, shaping both economic prosperity and social recognition within marginalized communities. The research questions posed aim to uncover how marginalized bodies utilize performance to navigate white spaces, leverage specific performances in socially constructed spaces, and negotiate the complexities of the American dream across generations. Situated in the Midwest, this project particularly focuses on Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, where Asian American communities often contend with hypervisibility as racialized Others and spatially isolated exclusion. By examining performance and performativity as lived practices, I shed light on the cultural reproduction and negotiation of spaces within Asian American communities in the Midwest.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:15:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Agnelo de Souza.pdf: 2498271 bytes, checksum: 1d7238d7084e204e7107f66a63ff9882 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-21 / This dissertation succinctly reviews the formation of the national labor market, comprising historical and economical aspects referring to the transitional period from the slavery regime into the immigration and wage earnings process, pointing out the highlights for the coffee cycle, and also the beginning of the manufacturing activities in São Paulo city. Subsequently, we discuss the consolidation of the substitute industry of imports (1930-1970) that strengthened the increasing workers formalization by intense social mobility. Face with the shortcomings of national development project, from the 1980s onwards, it is verified the incapacity of the market to absorb such workers. At this moment, the unemployment begins to become a social issue, generating underemployment and informality. The neoliberal changes were occurring in countries economically advanced, and they were introduced to Brazil in the 1990s, through the following triad: trade openness, deregulation and the State diminish, all of them associated with the low economical increasing, moreover the introduction of new technologies and changes to the organizational paradigm of companies. This conjuncture restricted the employments offer, and these actions unfolded presenting the increase of the heterogeneous labor market precariousness characterized by the depth of the labor exploration rate throughout the low remuneration, the unemployment, the high turnover and the informality. Concerning São Paulo city, the change in its socio-economical trait, considerably decreased the workplaces in the transformation industry. The prevailing economical tendency in the 90s was constituted by the trade and the work section. At this moment, SãoPaulo city conquers the status as global city and metropolis of work. Face with this setting, and aiming at restoring the degraded historic centre, it is flourished the Association Viva o Centro, whose beginning goal it was the salvage the centre lost to other parts of the city and its revitalization as well. Hence, in Viva o Centro leaders opinion, it was important to expel street traders from the centre in order to restore it. Last, it was identified the political position of trade unions referring to informal street work, that is, how they articulate each other face with workers that occupied, in a vulnerable condition, public streets without the Term of Protection and Use (TPU). Therefore, laboring in an illegal way as contumacious victims of the immoral corrupt inspection, deprived of the social protection framework, designing an expressive contingent of workers without any perspective on reintegrating to the formal labor market. We also analyze how the trade union focuses on this serious social issue concerning the non-organized segment of economics that has been increased especially motivated by the extreme unemployment / Esta dissertação revê de forma sucinta a formação do mercado de trabalho nacional, abordando aspectos históricos e econômicos que se reportam ao período de transição do regime escravocrata para o processo de imigração e assalariamento, com destaque para o ciclo cafeeiro e o início das atividades fabris na cidade de São Paulo. Na sequência, discorremos sobre a consolidação da indústria de substituição das importações (1930-1970) que consubstanciou a crescente formalização dos trabalhadores com intensa mobilidade social. Com o esgotamento do projeto nacional desenvolvimentista, a partir do início dos anos 80, verifica-se a incapacidade do mercado absorver os trabalhadores. Neste momento, o desemprego começa a se tornar um problema social, gerando subemprego e informalidade. As transformações neoliberais que estavam ocorrendo nos países de economia avançada foram introduzidas no Brasil nos anos 90, por meio da tríade: abertura comercial, desregulamentação e redução do tamanho do Estado, associadas ao baixo crescimento econômico, além da introdução de novas tecnologias e mudanças no paradigma organizacional das empresas. Esta conjuntura limitou a oferta de empregos e os desdobramentos destas ações resultaram no aumento da precariedade do heterogêneo mercado de trabalho, caracterizado pelo aprofundamento da taxa de exploração da mão de obra, através da baixa remuneração, desemprego, alta rotatividade e informalidade. No que diz respeito à cidade de São Paulo, com a mudança no seu perfil socioeconômico, diminuíram consideravelmente os postos de trabalho na indústria de transformação. A vocação econômica predominante nos anos 90 era constituída pelo setor de comércio e serviços. Neste momento, São Paulo conquista o status de cidade global e metrópole de serviços. Diante deste cenário e visando a recuperação do degradado centro histórico, floresceu no início da década de 90 a Associação Viva o Centro, cujo objetivo precípuo era a revitalização e o resgate da centralidade perdida para outras regiões da cidade. Portanto, na opinião dos dirigentes da Viva o Centro, era fundamental expulsar os camelôs do espaço central para revitalizá-lo. Por fim, diagnosticamos a postura política das centrais sindicais a respeito do trabalho informal de rua, ou seja, como elas se articularam com os trabalhadores em condições vulneráveis que ocupavam as vias públicas sem o Termo de Proteção e Uso (TPU). E, portanto, laborando de formal ilegal, sendo vítimas contumazes da corrupção da fiscalização inescrupulosa, desprovidos do arcabouço de proteção social, formando expressivos contingentes de trabalhadores sem perspectiva de voltar para o mercado formal de trabalho. Também analisamos como as centrais sindicais enxergavam esta grave questão social do segmento não organizado da economia que aumentou, sobretudo, motivado pelo elevado desemprego