Black lives in movement in Brazil: between the mith of racial democracy and the challenges of local integration
International migrations are configured as diverse and complex interconnections of social, economic, cultural, legal and institutional instances, with the potential to transform societies. In the case of Black diasporic immigrants, the social interconnections are intercepted by markers stemming from structural racism that affect their integration process. When marginalized identities and social categories are added to the structural racism of the State, new vulnerabilities are highlighted and new forms of resistance are solidified. In this context, this paper seeks to identify the social reflexes of the coloniality (Grosfoguel, 2016) in the bidirectional integration process (Spreafico, 2009) of Black immigrants in the city of São Paulo over the last decade, through a decolonial and Afrocentric perspective. The subjects of this research are Black people in diaspora in the city of São Paulo and the aim is to answer the following question: How does the racial construction of Brazilian society interfere in the integration processes of Black immigrants in the city of São Paulo?