Border narratives: Discursive landscapes of Venezuelan immigration in Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v13i25.17242

Keywords:

discursive landscapes, Venezuelan migration

Abstract

In this paper we answer the interdisciplinary call to map migrant practices, recruiting the notion of discursive landscapes. We observe the discourses on/about the circulation and presence of Venezuelan asylum-seekers in the cities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima, Roraima. The data were a product of fieldwork and qualitative interviews recorded in the region between 2018 and 2019. Specifically, we focus on oral narratives produced by the social actors involved in the phenomenon – asylum-seekers, inhabitants of Roraima, governmental and non-governmental administrators. The analyses, based on a qualitative and interpretative, discursive orientation, shed light on  the way in which the subjects narratively construct the border, organizing the social world that surrounds them and the circulating discourses.

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Author Biographies

Liana de Andrade Biar, Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Doutora em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2012), mestre em Letras pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2007) e graduada em Letras pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2005). Atualmente é Professora Adjunta da PUC-Rio, instituição em que atua na graduação em Letras e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem.

Maressa Fernanda Almeida da Silva, `Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Mestranda no programa de pós-graduaçãi em Estudos da Linguagem na PUC-Rio.

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Published

2024-11-07

How to Cite

Biar, L. de A., & Silva, M. F. A. da. (2024). Border narratives: Discursive landscapes of Venezuelan immigration in Brazil. Monções: UFGD Journal of International Relations, 13(25), 7–30. https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v13i25.17242

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Artigos Dossiê "Migrações: mapear e corporificar as práticas migrantes"