International Migration in Brazil: historical continuities and new trends

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Áurea Cristina Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vértices (Campos dos Goitacazes. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://editoraessentia.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/15826
• topic: Immigration; New migratory situations; Migration policy in Brazil; Inmigración; Nuevas situaciones migratorias; Política Migratoria en Brasil; Imigração; Novas situações migratórias; Política Migratória no Brasil

The increase of enforced displacements in the world has been highlighted by data from international organizations. This article contextualizes contemporary international migration in Brazil as one of the multiple phenomena related to the impetus of capitalist expansion, especially since the early 2000s, when border immigration of nationalities such as Haitian, Congolese, Bengali and Senegalese have accelerated. Based on bibliographic references and document analysis, we discuss that, despite having achieved a recognized advanced legislation related to refuge and a recent migration law, in Brazil, the State management of the migratory issue is much more related to control and selectivity through extraordinary legal mechanisms, than through guarantees; This has led to a process of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants that goes back to the previous history of Brazilian migratory policy and aligned with international discourse and practices, with growing perspective of immigration being a security and criminalizing issue. As of 2016, the Brazilian departure from international commitments to protect the human rights of migrants has become evident, causing specific situations in the daily lives of these subjects, such as the absence or difficulty of access to health care services, as well as the perpetuation of the situation of provisional or undocumented migration.