Experiências de moradia coletiva entre jovens de uma residência estudantil no IFPI - Campus Uruçuí

Abstract

This research aims to understand the relationships of sociability that young students establish during the experience of collective housing in a student residence maintained by a Federal Institute in a city in the countryside of Piauí. I try to understand their trajectories of arrival at the student residence and their motivations for this choice beyond economic issues as well. In the face of the impossibility of a physical field, since with the pandemic, the residence-school was closed, contact with interlocutors was brokered by digital communication and information technologies -TIC'S, and five physical meetings, making me reflect on the limits and reaches of ethnography in pandemic times. Ten students of both genders attended this research, among residents and ex-residents, as well as three professionals from the institution who work directly in the management and organization of student housing. The data obtained during the research indicated the process of consolidating student assistance on campus and the strategies of coexistence and overcoming difficulties of students during their stays in the student residence. I verified in the speeches of my interlocutors the existence recognition importance of a student residence as an action that guarantees their access and permanence to integrated high school and higher education, offered by the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Piauí - IFPI, Uruçuí Campus, in addition to the resignification of space and relationships that are established by them in the place.