Vidas em movimento na fronteira Brasil-Venezuela
disputas entre acolhimento e controle
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48213/travessia.i90.970Keywords:
refugees, borders, identitiesAbstract
From the increase in Venezuelan migratory flow to Brazil in late 2016 and early 2017, Venezuelan mobility started to be broadcast in the media and reproduced in the speeches of
Brazilian government authorities as a problem and risk to be managed and, same time, as an opportunity for Brazil to “welcome and care” this vulnerable population. Taking into account a brief experience and field study in Boa Vista and Pacaraima - in the state of Roraima -, the article aims to analyze how the discourses of danger and border control coexist with a logic of reception and defense of human rights and how this is materialized on the Brazil-Venezuela
border. In this sense, the article seeks to problematize how a “foreign” presence interferes with the local popular imagination, aggravating racist and xenophobic expressions, as well as attitudes of hospitality and reception. In this way, it will be highlighted how the contemporary migratory crisis is one of the major themes of international politics, bringing issues such as the humanitarianism of nations and at the opposite vertex, the rigidity of the sovereign state and the connection between territory, population and maintenance of security that still surrounds the global political conception.