iDiaspora Photo Contest - 2022: Submission #42

Submission Number: 42
Submission ID: 9996
Submission UUID: 774179c5-9973-483b-89a8-7b3619d786ee
Submission URI: /en/photo-contest

Created: Mon, 10/24/2022 - 00:37
Completed: Mon, 10/24/2022 - 00:53
Changed: Mon, 10/24/2022 - 00:53

Remote IP address: 201.0.221.5
Submitted by: Unknown
Language: English

Is draft: No

Personal Information

Paulina
Cho
Brazilian
Sao Paulo
São Paulo
Brazil
Brazil
Amateur

Presentation on the photographic series

Ethni-Cities: a special case of Bom Retiro
Navigating identities: is there a relationship between Diaspora’s homeland and new land? How do diasporas express their sense of belonging in multiple societies?
Bom Retiro is a neighbourhood in central São Paulo, Brazil, known as an ethnic enclave. he history of Bom Retiro is intertwined with migratory movements and the establishment of Estação da Luz in 1867, where a large influx of people began to disembark in search of opportunity. Since its beginning, the neighbourhood has attracted diverse ethnic groups, including Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Jews, Greeks, Arabs, Cypriots, Armenians, Koreans, Bolivians, Paraguayans, Peruvians, and migrants from other areas of Brazil and the world. It is marked by untold uncomfortableness of communities coexisting but not recognising each other. The photos seek an intersection between the different daily spaces Jews, Koreans, Bolivians, and other ethnicities inhabit in the neighbourhood, with the audacity of imagining new possibilities of human interaction and narratives between them and where each one calls home.

Upload your Photos (3 photos)

  • Photo: Ethni-Cities - Bom Retiro - 1.jpg
    Title: 1
    Brief introduction: Korean men playing mahjong at a commercial complex owned by Jews migrants.
    Photo location: Bom Retiro
  • Photo: Ethni-Cities - Bom Retiro - 2.jpg
    Title: 2
    Brief introduction: Pastelaria (a place usually owned by Japanese migrants that sells Chinese-Brazilian dumplings) with a sign written in Korean and Portuguese
    Photo location: Bom Retiro
  • Photo: Ethni-Cities-Bom-Retiro-3.png
    Title: 3
    Brief introduction: Street fair advertising eggs in several languages.
    Photo location: Bom Retiro
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