DIÁSPORA AFRICANA E EDUCAÇÃO

Abstract

This work analyses the immigration process of young African students to Brazil. It took as a reference the migratory process, at first temporary , of students of different countries of Africa to study in Brazilian universities because of bilateral agreement signed between developing countries and Brazil. It analyses this migration connected to the implementation process of student policies involving foreign students and the socialization process of these students inside Maranhão Federal University (UFMA), establishing a short comparison with the same dynamic inside MatoGrosso do Sul Federal University (UFMS). It assumes that this is a temporary migration and motivated by bilateral agreements between the States and performed within certain parameters. It articulates the African Diaspora in UFMA with the racial question. It seeks to understand the motivations and the conditions which leaded the migration of the Africans to study in Maranhão but mainly the conditions of life in the destined countries and the ways of articulation of the migrants with their countries. It takes as empirical field the experiences of some young African students,who come from different countries, in Maranhão and the way policies for foreign student are being developed ( PEC-G covenant) in the latter State.