Abstract:
In the present research were analyzed memory spaces in which events are held with
migrants and refugees in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The beginning of the twenty-first century
was marked by a great migratory flow, considered the greatest after World War II, in which
millions of people sought other countries to start over again. In Rio de Janeiro we find the
most diverse nationalities present in spaces where gastronomy, music, dance, narratives and
art represent these diasporas. The spaces of memories act not only as a transmitter of the
culture of the refugees and of their narratives, but also as a space of empowerment of the
same. These spaces are not fixed, they are inserted in other spaces that serve to the most
diverse activities, like Christ Church and Habonin Dror, for example. The formation of these
spaces is complex, because they establish social relations and power, cultural transmission,
the contact between different groups that together form an identity space in their diasporas.
dentities find means of affirmation in these spaces, not only as individual and collective
identities, but also as transitory identities of the spaces in which refugees are inserted. The
memory precedes the identity and the person in situation of refuge brings in his luggage the
memories of the past that contributed to the formation of his identity, which is not something
fixed, but is in constant transformation.
