Trabalhadores brasileiros, brasileiros trabalhadores: Resignifica o da identidade étnica entre emigrantes de origem rural (do Oeste do Paraná - Suí a, 1970-2008)

This article focuses on memories of ruralemigrants from western Parana who returned fromSwitzerland, where they worked in agriculture, mediatedby a Swiss state organization. We'll try to perceive in firstplace how the migration influences the affirmation ofethnic and national identities; secondly in whichsituations these migrants express these identities andwhat elements they use for; thirdly which relations areestablished between individual, familiarly and localidentities.