THE FRONTIERS WITHIN A CONTEXCTS OF CHANGES: THE EVERY DAY LIFE RELATIONSHIP INSIDE TWINS CITIES, LIKE RIVERA (URUGUAY) AND SANT’ANA DO LIVRAMENTO (BRASIL)

Abstract

The new ways of integration and the globalization process, represent a theoretic mark for a frontier space analysis in a context of changes as they were happening since the end of the XX century. The rescue of the local values could be an alternative, to introduce us into a global local dialectical evaluations from the community identity. Within this conception, we pretend to analyze the local frontier area or spaces (usually bi or even tri nationalities), with historical identities that link hybrid cultures, whose characteristics many times ,usually have not been recognized by any nation involved. Rivera-Livramento, two populations in a border mark (therefore twins cities), they aren’t an exception international case of frontiers, even for latinamerican situations. However there exist quite different realities, some times they are little populations, or marked by conflictive situations, or limited neighborhood links, or even because an ancestry and stronger influence of one city upon other. The research of the Uruguay and Brazil frontier, is spaciously and demographically comparable, although it belongs to different potentials political units. The real frontier region integration “in fact” has generated a particular borderer space, with similar common codes. This frontier space, of historical and deep relationships, of people making and living the present, and represent a history, goes beyond the limitations politically imposed, through own decisions. The every day practices break the abstract conceptions of the State, the Nation, the national culture, to make reappear the people, their duty and their every day and diary life. The language as a identity and/or a discrimination symbol. The national identity reinforcement is considered altogether, without looking the“others “ like strangers, although is true that exist some myths and stereotypes in that relation with the “ other”. The present work makes the people every day live, the realizations in that common two country space, the parents relationship dimension, solidarity, the exchanges, the perception of this people about the border space and the integrations within different scales.