Ser Boy-boy em Maputo: vida na cidade, trajectórias e experiências dos estudantes da UEM residentes no bairro Polana-Caniço

Abstract

The present work is the result of an ethnographic research carried out among students and graduates of UEM, who after completing their course will reside in the neighborhood of Polana Caniço “A” also known as R10 which means university residence number 10. The fieldwork consisted of the tracking of students' and graduates' daily trajectories, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and focus groups. I analyze the local dynamics and their identities in these urban spaces, not only, but also the activities that they develop during the waiting time, which ends up becoming the arrival phase. The research allowed us to conclude that during this prolonged phase of waiting for a job, they end up becoming a “boy-boy”, which is the exercise of activities that allows them to design other logics of life, readings of the social and other lifestyles through of these daily practices (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)