From a political citizenship perspective, the work examines different trajectories by the children of owners of haciendas or large plantations integrated to the international market, as well as descendants of slaves or peasants submitted to subordinate relations. The analysis encompasses the large plantation as the matrix of hierarchical sociability inherited from colonial times; the core factors for breaking the conditions for the existence of traditional domination; the modalities for uprooting of Brazilian peasantry and mobilization carried out by the landless movement; and underprivileged groups' search for new forms of social and cultural rooting.
migration; land reform struggle; Brazilian peasantry; political citizenship