Crimmigration in Brazil and the Netherlands: How the Phenomenon of Securitization can be a Fuel to These Processes?
Crimmigration in Brazil and the Netherlands: How the Phenomenon of Securitization can be a Fuel to These Processes?

Author(s): Laís Azeredo Alves
Subject(s): Politics, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Criminology, Substance abuse and addiction, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Brazil; Crimmigration; Netherlands;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to verify the extent to which Brazilian Migration Policy has been influenced by the US War on Drugs and how, justified through a security discourse, it employs practices that violate human rights. A key objective is to determine if the combined effects of drug securitization and historical racism are resulting in the start of a “crimmigration” process. The fact that the federal police, the agency in charge of policing drug trafficking, is also the one that manages immigration, is a major factor in this assessment. This paper further analyses the immigration policy of the Netherlands, for two key reasons. Because a Crimmigration process is also apparent in the Netherlands comparison with the Brazilian context provides for an assessment of the relative degrees of Crimmigration. Secondly, because Dutch drugs policy is fundamentally different to Brazil’s, it provides scope for valuable insights into how differing causal factors lead to the same results, such as the fact both countries treat migration policy with a security bias. The methodology applied in this research is based on bibliographic materials and governmental documents related to the immigration process in Brazil and in the Netherlands.

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