Processes of memories transmission and urban space use associated with migration experience form the basis of this study that directs its attention to Feira de São Cristóvão, observed from memories in circulation through cordel booklets, oral testimonials and document’s collections of cordelistas migrated from the northeast of Brazil to the city of Rio de Janeiro between the second half of the last century and the first decade of this century. Because it is a cultural manifestation distanced from the hegemonic codes in the southeast of Brazil and, in turn, key to the group that frequent the studied space, the voices of cordel and cordelistas are of great value to the discussion of migration issues, occupation of space by minority groups, transmission of memories and intercultural dialogue, themes that, with the advancement of cultural globalization processes and the value of traditional cultural heritage, have been stating as much in public as in academic debate.