ABSTRACT
The existence of a migration network in the city of Urussanga, in Santa Catarina, a southern coastal state of Brazil, which encourages young people to work in ice-cream parlours in Germany, constituting a colonizing narrative of the migration process, and engenders individuals and their families in a broad social process, in which projects of life and success are linked to the city's own plan of success. Such a phenomenon transforms experiences of living in-between places (Brazil and Germany) into liminality processes. The vulnerable condition of the liminality experience may result into significant psychological distress, which is often overshadowed by the success seeker migratory narrative. Suddenly the group was forced to experience the events generated by the new coronavirus pandemic that forced them to set up new strategies and change their life projects. The phenomenon becomes evident in the pandemic, generating crises. By means of qualitative analysis of testimonies, in this chapter we seek to investigate the result of this process.
