CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS AND PROCESSES OF IN/EXCLUSION: A STUDY DRAWING ON LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS

Abstract

International migration, in the last decades, has been changing at the global, national and local levels, resulting in what has been called a humanitarian crisis, and which marks the intense mobility of people from countries affected by political and bellic conflicts and natural catastrophes to politically and socioeconomically more stable countries. In Brazil, the last decade encompasses, mainly, migratory waves from South American, African, Caribbean and Middle Eastern countries. In the face of growing international displacements, the article presents a segment of the research Migration and processes of in/exclusion, which problematizes the processes of in/exclusion and the biopolitical strategies for governing the migrant population, drawing on legislative documents from three municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), processed between 2013 and 2017. The discussion carried out in this writing refers to a section of the data particular to the city of Venâncio Aires (RS, Brazil), which comprises ordinary and complementary laws, bills from the Executive and Legislative branches, as well as council meetings, within the designated time frame. Keywords directly and indirectly related to the research topic were applied to the documents that allow for character recognition; alternatively, the remaining documents were scan-read in order to identify any mentions to migration. Drawing upon the alluded operating concepts, the analysis reveals the incipient visibility of migrants in the city's social, political and cultural domains, particularly in the field of social assistance. Finally, the discussion focuses on how the dynamics of in/exclusion are intertwined with the biopolitical acts embedded in the actions of the state and neoliberal governmentality.