Abstract

Since 2010, year in which begun a  more effective entry of Haitians in Brazil, the Brazilian government has awakened to the need to rethink its legislation and migration management model, in addition to emphasising, socially, the fact that it is a country that contemporaneously also receives migrants. The fact that Haitians incurred, at that historic moment, in a non-traditional migrant group rendered evident the gap between international migration norms and actuality.

This awakening did not occur smoothly. The arrival of such large numbers of migrants into the Brazilian context, especially on land borders, in the Northern Territory, the states of Acre and Amazonas and, subsequently, their movement throughout the country, demonstrated how much the country was unprepared to receive these people, be it from a regulatory and institutional point of view, but also from a social perspective, so to say. The simple discourse that the country was an open door revealed the failure to house this population.

In this light, this seminar aims to assess the ways in which States develop their actions with regard to international migrations - analysing the specific case of Brazil during the second decade of this century and presenting the latest research related to the Brazilian context, authored by the speaker.

Bio note

João Carlos Jarochinski Silva,   Federal University of Roraima, visiting researcher at CES.

Activity within the  Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group | NHUMEP