Gênero, Colonialidade e Migrações: uma análise de discursos institucionais sobre a “Brasileira Imigrante” em Portugal

Abstract

Este artigo analisa discursos oficiais portugueses (do Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, e, do Alto Comissariado para Imigração e Diálogo Intercultural), bem como, discursos institucionais de associações de imigrantes (da Casa do Brasil de Lisboa, da Associação Lusofonia, Cultura e Cidadania, e, da Associação Comunidária) no que tange a (re)(des)construção do imaginário em torno da “brasileira imigrante” em Portugal. Para este fim, utiliza-se o método da Análise de Discurso, sob uma inspiração foucaultiana; empregando-se as técnicas da pesquisa documental e da entrevista. Na perspectiva teórica, insere-se nos debates sobre Feminização das Migrações e Colonialidade do Gênero. As conclusões apontam que a maioria dos discursos institucionais reproduz elementos do imaginário de hipersexualização das mulheres brasileiras.

Gender, Vulnerability and Everyday Resistance in Immigration Detention: Women’s Experiences of Confinement in a Portuguese Detention Facility

“…This is what some scholars have defined as the 'coloniality of gender' (Lugones 2007(Lugones , 2010; see also Gomes 2018). Overall, and despite their different nationalities, social classes and backgrounds, the women we met were affected by hegemonic images of femininity, which ultimately reinstate the age-old distinction between white women and women of colour-the first represented as Madonnas/mothers/brides and the latter as Evas/sinners/prostitutes (Gomes 2018;Stolke 2006). Not only did these racialised, gendered tropes serve to uphold the system and www.crimejusticejournal.com IJCJ&SD 16 2020 9(3) legitimate its existence, they also helped institutional actors, and at times women themselves, to make sense of their experiences (Bosworth , 2017).…”

“…Relying on women's own accounts of their experiences in detention helps to illustrate how the immigration system maintains a racialised and gendered social order in Western societies. It also highlights the centrality of the figure of the migrant prostitute/victim of trafficking in this process (Gomes 2018;Peano 2012). The criminalisation of transborder migration, through a progressive securitisation of borders, and the failure of Portuguese law (similarly to other EU countries) to recognise sex labour with the status of work, ultimately foster a racialised and gendered underclass.…”

“…As feminist scholars have pointed out, a persistent imaginary that associates Brazilian women with a hypersexualised and an available body marks the everyday life of these women in Portugal (Gomes 2013(Gomes , 2018Padilla 2008;Piscitelli 2008a). This imaginary, which harks back to Portuguese colonial history and the related ideology of lusotropicalism, 13 is upheld and reinforced through media accounts, institutional discourses and mundane social interactions (de Reno Machado 2009; Gomes 2018).…”

“…As in the last years transborder mobility has been increasingly securitised, the general imaginary of migrants as a threat to national security reinforces the specific imaginary of Brazilian women as equally threatening to the national moral order (Gomes, 2018). To understand this reality, the story of the 'Mothers of Braganza' (Maes de Bragança), is illustrative.…”

En búsqueda del derecho a ser: proyecto migratorio de brasileñas en A Coruña

“…La intersección entre clase social, apariencia y género, potencializa que las mujeres que emigran de las ex colonias para las ex metrópolis estén "condenadas" por aspectos simbólicos materializados en una serie de presupuestos que trascienden la fuerza hegemónica en la contemporaneidad (Gomes, 2018).…”