Border locations: the question of integration through the transoceanic highway in the southwestern Amazon

Abstract

During the investigation, the approach as na analysis unit of different forms of territorialinzing a same space by different social individuals who found themselves obliged to cohabit with the differences determined by a political-administrative boundary was searched. A reality characterized by being constantly changing, and which may have as intensive affect to the relationship of such boundary populations: the construction of the Transoceanic Road connecting Brasil to the Pacific Ocean through Peru. That Road has become a prioritary element to the Brasilian Governanment. Among the existing expectations associated to it, there are increments of certain exports, aiming an even more important marked as the Asian.