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Paper Kinship: Law, Power and Resistance in an Ethnographic Scene with Foreign Migrants starts from an "ethnographic scene" with foreign migrants in a lawyer's office to discuss the role that migratory documents play on kinship in the transnational movement. By doing this, it highlights how the state and the Law discipline these relations and how migrants themselves, using the legal logic of documentary production, elaborate themselves as persons, in resistance to state power. Based on this experience, named here as paper kinship, a reelaboration of the concept of document is proposed, encompassing both the bureaucratic agency and that of the subjects of documentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents reflections from ethnographic data obtained during a master's degree research in a mental health service for immigrants, refugees and deaf people in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. During this research, I worked as a collaborating anthropologist for the service, and this was a dynamic and incessant process of invention and counter-invention as to what an anthropologist would do in a mental health service for people with what was defined as "linguistic and cultural vulnerabilities". From this, I present the logic of the machinery of production and assimilation (or not) of differences by separating the world between those who believe and those who know, or the premodern and the modern. Finally, I propose to populate these contexts and scenarios by anthropologists, taking seriously the symbolic dimensions in health contexts and producing data and care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspective of Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina when points to the existence of civic values, whose incorporation in institutional educational action is very important, this paper aims to propose a reflection about the contribution of values such as freedom, equality, dialogue, active respect, and solidarity to the experience of institutional education in the intercultural dimension. This paper shows relevance because it bases on the conception opposed to the oppression of different cultures that is presented by Adela Cortina and Paulo Freire. It also shows the possibility that a beneficial and healthy relationship can be built in the school space making effectively viable the right to education for migrants. In a first moment, this work will point data of the entrance of immigrants in Brazil and general guidelines of the Brazilian migratory policy regarding the access to the education. Next, from the perspective of Adela Cortina, the concept of intercultural citizenship and the conexion with educational action in the school space will be portrayed. Finally, through the punctual approach of civic values, a reflection will be established on the contribution that these values incorporated to the institutional educational action can offer to promote of fruitful conditions for the development of intercultural citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the feature article "Fuga de uma ditadura: a saga dos venezuelanos no Brasil" (Flight from a dictatorship: the saga of Venezuelans in Brazil), by Jennifer Ann Thomas, published by the Brazilian magazine Veja in 2019. The subject of the article is refugees and the crisis in Venezuela. This paper identifies the discursive structures used tin the article to represent "others", in this case, Venezuelan immigrants. Analysis is also made of linguistic expressions, which symbolise and produce differences between "us" (Brazil and Brazilians) and "them" (the other - Venezuela and its citizens). The paper concludes that the discourse about the "other", which in Veja's article also includes statistics and quotes sources close to the government, only states that which is appropriate for the magazine's audiences to know, i.e. their readers. In summary, analysis of the article published by Veja magazine allows us to conclude that it reproduces the hegemonic discourse about "the other" - a reductionist, conservative and nationalist discourse. The theoretical reference underpinning this paper's semiological orientation is Social Semiotics (Martins, 2002/2017), a discipline of Social and Human Sciences, whose main concern is to establish the conditions that govern the social possibility of meaning and that, in semantic and pragmatic terms, leads to the explanatory and comprehensive interpretation of discourses. On the other hand, since this paper aims to understand social construction processes of the other, i.e. understand the social construction processes of identities, it is inspired by the intellectual current known in Europe as the "philosophy of difference" (Descombes, 1998; Foucault, 1966; Levinas, 2002; Martins, 2019; Ricoeur, 1991). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the principle of denial that characterizes and underpins the colonial cistem to reflect on escape possibilities. Its starting point was the ban suffered in 2021 by Casa T* (a welcoming space for travestis and trans individuals, racialized people and immigrants in Lisbon, Portugal) in the organization of the city’s LGBTQI+ March, without any prior request for participation in the event on their part. Considering the physical and symbolic dimensions of an anticipated refusal of a desire that did not even come to be, the writing was driven by the following questions: what are the bases of representational thinking that denies and performs the abandonment of bodies and people and disregards their desires and existences? How can we think of escape routes that allow plural constructions outside the colonial representational neurosis? Episteme-worlds derived from radical black and trans* radical thought helped us to draft answers to such questions that stem from the mentioned episode and, at the same time, encompass fundamental queries of political representation outside the modern Subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Guianas are an important field in the Caribbean migratory system, whereby goods, objects, currencies, and populations circulate for different reasons: geographical, cultural proximity, climatic, geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. From the 1960s and 1970s, Haitian migration increased in the Guianas. Five decades later, after the January 2010 earthquake, the migratory spaces were intensified in the region, Brazil became part of them as a country of residence and transit to reach French Guiana and Suriname. In 2013, the routes were altered. Some migrants started to use the Republic of Guyana to enter Brazil through the border with Roraima, in the Amazon, or to cross the border towards Suriname and French Guiana. This article is divided into two levels. First, it describes the way in which migrants' practices and trajectories intersect national borders in the Guianas. Then, it analyzes the migratory system, documents and papers, and the problems that the different Haitian migratory generations raise in space and time. The ethnographic research is based on the Triple Border Brazil, Colombia and Peru, but also in Suriname, French Guiana and Haiti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is proposed in this paper to analyze discourses about the immigrant taking as a theoretical basis the bakhtinian perspective of dialogic language, especially on the conception of future memory and study of the utterance. From the dialogues constructed in the journalistic media on the immigrant, two charges are considered for the analysis. They were published in 2018 in the french newspaper Le Monde and shared by the french blog GalliaWatch. Both charges bring as a theme the episode of rescue of a child performed by malian immigrant Mamoudou Gassama in May 2018, in the city of Paris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the PNADs microdata (2011 to 2015), the paper analyzes the interstate migratory matrices of Rio de Janeiro and characterizes the immigrant profile. The analysis shows that the economic and financial crisis of 2014 is associated with a reduction in the state migration balance, whose magnitude was probably no longer significant due to the inertial nature of their migratory flows (existence of networks between regions of origin and destiny). Relative selectivity (and stability) is observed in the migratory process: immigrants tend to be white men, with stable marital status and with high levels of education. There is evidence of increased migration of women and black and brown individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1970s and 1980s, migratory flows of Portuguese and luso-Africans from old Portuguese African colonies towards to São Paulo were the result of the pressures of difficult and complex African and Portuguese politics. Three very different cultural experiences were in play: that of the portuguese colony, the african context, and the Brazilian character of the destination, Sao Paulo. This paper explores the migrant's complex displacement experiences, the insertion of the migrant into the new context and the conflicts of identity that this migratory process entailed. We concentrate on the recent past, which has not been extensively researched. We use a method we call "summarized life-histories", which seemed appropriate, as we didn't know what the immigrants would tell us. We present a number of specific cases to exemplify our analysis. Through them, we can see that memories refer to events, people and places from the three continents, through the conscious and unconscious construction of multiple identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper developed an investigation about the trajectory of Portuguese merchant Antônio José de Araújo (1791-1851) in municipality of Morretes, between 1804 and 1849. In this framework, the purpose of this study is to highlight the forms of social domination exercised by Portuguese who inhabited municipalities of south coast of Province of São Paulo in the first half of nineteenth century. Thus, it is shown that the control of the credit market was crucial for traders formed a dependent entourage. Sometimes these dependents were familiar from their creditors. It was impractical to small traders achieve withdraw from these retinues [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines practices of bearing witness and testimony that have arisen in response to the continuing migrant deaths in the southwestern deserts of the United States. I suggest that these practices can be considered a kind of resistance in that they restore the humanity to those who have perished and in doing so acknowledge that our contemporary bordered world harbors the spirits of those of have travelled he dangerous paths created by visible and invisible boundaries. The hope for more humane policies depends upon such an acknowledgement and keeping them alive in the public memory is key to promoting change. This paper also argues for a broad conceptualization of what it means to witness and provide testimony. The practices examined range from telling migrants' stories, to providing humanitarian aid, to practices of identifying the remains of migrants who have died and thus restoring their identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conflicting relationship, which culminated in a riot of European settlers in Ibicaba farm, in São Paulo, in the nineteenth century. The conflictive relationship was analyzed by religious and historiographical bias. European immigrants who came to work and gradually replace the hand labor black slave in coffee plantations in the interior, ended up being totally deceived a disproportionate relationship, called partnership. The majority of these European immigrants came from countries with Protestant tradition. Among other factors, the Protestant habitus of these settlers was decisive for the uprising. The book-witness, Swiss, Thomas Davatz entitled: Memoirs of a settler in Brazil (1850) as a basis for the work presented here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to analyze briefly the action of a particular group of immigrants who had, throughout the social formation of colonies, considerable importance: the religious. Immersed in the lives of immigrants in the homeland, the religious right became necessaries to propose that the formation and / or unity communities. Upon being requested by settlers who inserted by lands now colonization areas in the process of immigration promoted, especially after 1850, these religious of the Christian faith were important to the settlers and the settlements, with regard to the implementation in the new land, as well as the maintenance of the precepts of religion Christian, in this case, protecting the people not to give in to superstitions outside the dogmas of the Church too. How was the relationship between the German settlers and the religious? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the relationships between immigrants' religiosity and mental health and its implications for clinical practice of psychiatrists and psychologists who attend them in specialized services. It presents an analytical summary of the main issues raised in the literature concerning the relationships between religiosity and mental health, articulating them with immigrant's specific reality, as well as pointing to the importance of this issue in contemporary context and how it is perceived and drawn up by professionals of the PSY field. It concludes that more research is needed on the subject, whose discussion is largely absent throughout the training of PSY professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of San Carlos de Bariloche since the late nineteenth century has relied attended different migration flows (European and mainly Chilean) that have contributed to its founding settlement. Since the second half of the last century the city not only includes migrants from other provinces but also becomes a destination for Latin American communities. Since the late seventies the Bolivian population settles in the suburbs of the city and since the nineties a bolivian family moves the image of the Virgin of Urkupiña to Bariloche and kicks off the festivities in his honor. Bolivian migrants in San Carlos de Bariloche, in the key of subalternity, produce local identities that are materialize in our object of study: the Marian devotions and specifically the celebration of the Virgin of Urkupiña. This paper analyzes the "place" of Bolivian women in these religious celebrations taking into account, on the one hand, their condition and the multiplicity of identities that cross it and, on the other hand, the women visibility and invisibility in the featured moments of the ritual [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper has the purpose of to analyze the level of legal protection of Mercosul migrant intraregional, from the "state of the art" in relation to regulations of the Mercosul, as well as the domestic legal system of Brazil, and from Arendt's conception of space and public sphere. Accordingly, based on the method of dialectical approach and technical research literature, it was concluded that the Brazilian legal system, translator of the Mercosul expectations about protection of their immigrant intrarregional restricts the access of immigrants subject to public space, which contributes even for the maintenance of a Mercosul restricted to the debate in terms of foreign policy. This reality is the model refines the person's overall treatment of immigrants and has revealed the lack of legal protection of the immigrant person and your vulnerability and restriction to the private sphere, which represents a real legitimate violence of basic human right: the right action in public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ways descendants of Portuguese immigrants in Canada, raised under the shroud of their Portugal ancestry, contemplate, formulate and negotiate their identities via the two primary sporting pastimes of the two countries: soccer, in the case of Portugal; ice hockey, in the case of Canada. The findings presented in this article are based on empirical data collected through semis-structured interviews and casual conversations with Portuguese-Canadian descendants during a fieldwork period that took place from October 2nd to November 5th of 2009 in the Canadian cities of Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to investigate the new patterns of relatedness constructed in the migratory context. The place chosen for such enterprise is the Brazilian region of Governor Valadares, known as a center of international emigration. It aims to understand how the family relations are reconstructed during the absence of the migrants, through three basic axles: 1) the project of production of the house, through the sending of remittances and the constitution of other forms of co-substantiality; 2) the care with the children who remain in Brazil and the circulation of children in transnational space; and, finally, 3) the relation between couples divided by the distance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]