ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a particular manifestation of Bolivian Pentecostalism as a means of understanding the immanent logic of the strategies used by Bolivian migrants to navigate the challenges of their post-migratory experience. The first migratory flows of Bolivians to Brazil date back to the 1950s, when a cultural exchange program was established between Brazil and Bolivia and some students came in search of academic qualifications not available in their country of origin. The chapter examines the configuration of a Pentecostal religiosity among Bolivian immigrants in Sao Paulo and then qualitatively analyzes the role of this form of belief as a way of uniting identities and socialities in a post-migratory context. Homi Bhabha calls an 'interstitial space' as a creative space for the emergence of newness in that this space permits a group to search for their own alternatives so that they can construct a unique identity.
