When language barriers engenders human rights violations: which language policies the Brazilian State is adopting in order to guarantee access to basic public services for immigrants?

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira, Gilvan Müller
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: da Silva, Julia Izabelle
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Gragoatá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33466
• topic: Language barriers. Immigration. Human rights. Language policies.; Barreiras linguísticas. Imigração. Direitos humanos. Políticas linguísticas.

This article presents a discussion, still very incipient in Brazil, about the language policies that the Brazilian State has adopted to respond to the language barriers faced by immigrants in access to public services. Initially, it seeks to demonstrate, through legal elements, how language barriers can contribute to the violation of basic human rights, as well as the current Brazilian legislation on migratory issue. Based on the theoretical model proposed by Ozolins (2010) about the policies of offering interpreters and translators in the public sector, it is possible to affirm that the Brazilian State is completely negligent regarding the provision of language policies of interpretation in the public sector to immigrants. In addition, the institutionalization of the teaching of Portuguese for refugees is still a recent and sparse federal program. In this way, it is the voluntary entities that have assumed the role of producing policies both for the offering of interpreters and for teaching the Portuguese language. The lack of action by the State reveals, in this sense, an ideological orientation that either denies the presence of the languages of the immigrants or sees this diversity as a problem to be overcome by teaching the Portuguese language.--- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n42a909