Migration Crisis and Governance in Brazil Since 2010 or, How Migration Becomes an Opportunity for The Exceptional Exercise of Power
Migration Crisis and Governance in Brazil Since 2010 or, How Migration Becomes an Opportunity for The Exceptional Exercise of Power

Author(s): João Gilberto Belvel Fernandes Júnior
Subject(s): Governance, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migration Crisis; Governance; Brazil; AGIER; migration; systemic; economic; political; environmental; crises; transnational; movement; human; national territories; global north;
Summary/Abstract: In Brazil, as in the rest of the world, the somewhat vague notion of “migration crisis” has been used to designate phenomena that could be better understood as reception crises (AGIER, 2021). This is to avoid the mistake of thinking of migration as a cause, and not as an effect of systemic, economic, political or environmental crises, or to take seriously the forced nature of the transnational movement that gives rise to this type of treatment – a nature that, according to the international legal system for the protection of human rights, would attract prerogatives such as those of the non-refoulement, and the right to enter national territories, contrary to what has happened in practice, mainly in the global north.

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