O programa de mobilidade internacional “ciência sem fronteiras” na perspectiva das desigualdades de oportunidades educacionais

Abstract

The phenomenon investigated in this thesis belongs to the field of Sociology of Education, having as central object the social inequalities of access to international student mobility offered by the "Science without Borders" Program, created in 2011 by the federal government. Based on the sociological literature on the opportunities of internationalization of studies, it is established as the objective of this research to know the social and scholastic profile of this population, as a means of subsidizing the current debate on the social inequalities of access to international mobility. The main hypothesis is that the beneficiaries referred to in this program would be the owners, to a greater or lesser extent, of symbolic capitals (cultural, school, linguistic) and dispositions (migratory habitus) facilitating access to this educational asset. Therefore, the thesis is that access to international academic training is limited by educational opportunities, since the students who achieve it are, for the most part, part of an academic elite that enjoys a certain social favor, which Repercussions on school trajectories that reveal "excellence" in educational pathways. The methodology used consisted of the comparison between this population with its origin group, that is, with the student body of the UFMG, and with its pairs of engineering courses (preferential profile of the program), the results would reveal a group of socially favored young people And school-based schools, inclined to scholastic success and crossing academic boundaries. For that, the demographic, socioeconomic, sociocultural and scholastic profile of 1538 undergraduate students of the UFMG contemplated by the CsF Program in the year of 2013 were drawn-with data obtained through a questionnaire.