Resumo:
The arrival of African students in the municipality of São Francisco do Conde (BA)
provoked reactions of surprise, curiosity, and estrangement from the local population.
This study focuses on Guinean female students who seek higher education in Brazil
and, upon settling in the municipality, face an intense cultural shock, compounded by
the challenges arising from Brazilian structural racism. The research proposes a critical
reflection on the ways in which the migratory process impacts their academic, social,
and identity trajectories, especially regarding the perception and confrontation of racial
discrimination. Thus, it seeks to understand how the migratory experience and the
condition of being a Black and African woman intertwine in the construction of their
identities within a historically racialized territory. Methodologically, a qualitative
approach is adopted, with the use of semi-structured interviews and bibliographic
analysis. The perspective of intersectionality guides the analysis, allowing for the
capture of the complexity of the inequalities faced by the students and their strategies
of resistance and resignification within the Brazilian academic space.
