DISPERSÃO TERRITORIAL CONTROLADA DAS MIGRAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS NO BRASIL

Abstract

Migration is a type of mobility that articulates people in space and time in a coexisting manner. There are several causes for migrations to occur. In the face of a globalized world economy, inequalities manifest themselves in territories and condition expulsions, barriers, imprisonment and/or constant migratory movements, which require explanations that consider structural and circumstantial elements as conditioning factors of such a phenomenon. In the context of Latin America, Brazil is a country constituted by multiple migratory movements. In an attempt to contribute to understanding the configuration and content of migrations that cross Brazilian territory in the 21st century, this text aims to discuss the “humanitarian reception” strategies subsidized by international organizations in partnership with national governments, which essentially reveal, through the controlled territorial dispersion of people in migration situations, the standardization, blocking and containment (even if circulatory) of people in migration situations in the countries that form the Global South. To this end, the theoretical framework based on the concepts of migration, border, institution, agents and scale, associated with the collection of secondary data, reading of documents and empirical work contributed to our being able to theoretically understand the complexity that underpins migrations in the current period, and which demands, in addition to reflection, the construction of alternative agendas to the control of migrant lives in the present.