Territorialidade de fronteira: uma contribuição ao estudo da questão fronteiriça Brasil e Uruguai no contexto do Mercosul

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the politics of regional integration in Mercosur established by the Brazil-Uruguay binational border, with a view to understand the significance of the frontier in the contemporary context. Considering that the process of regional integration redefines the boundary, it studies the practices of social policies in the twin cities of Santana do Livramento (Brazil) and Rivera (Uruguay). Addresses certain dynamics of social relationships applied on the border analysis perspective taking the globalization process that generates as a result a space replanning in this region. It starts with the idea that relations between the local and global shapes the social identities and that they acquires a particular dynamic in this territorial border. The democratic participation notion is considered crucial to understand how to mobilize the border agents in this process, as well as to understand the strategies enlisted by extra-powers in this border area.