Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion: Haitian, Syrian, and Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Brazil

Jensen, Katherine; Dias, Lisa M. Sousa

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“…Again, the United States is no exception; for instance, discriminatory practices persist in global migration systems despite the end of formally exclusionary laws. Although Brazil has responded to Haitian, Venezuelan, and Syrian forced migrants with policies of inclusion, these groups are each racialized differently in media and the public sphere (Jensen and Dias 2022). When Ecuadoran officers switched to less binary admission categories by using the classification "mixed migration" instead of immigrant/refugee, they ended up excluding many asylum-seekers (Gómez and Herrera 2022).…”

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State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

Menjívar

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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In this presidential address, I argue for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classification systems based on rules and regulations that reflect powerful interests and ideologies, bureaucracies maintain entrenched inequality systems that include, exclude, and neglect. I propose adopting a critical perspective when using formalized categories in our work, which would acknowledge the constructed nature of those categories, their naturalization through everyday practices, and their misalignments with lived experiences. This lens can reveal the systemic structures that engender both enduring patterns of inequality and state classification systems, and reframe questions about the people the state sorts into the categories we use. I end with a brief discussion of the benefits that can accrue from expanding our theoretical repertoires by including knowledge produced in the Global South.

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State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

Menjívar

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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“…Finally, in “Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion: Haitian, Syrian, and Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Brazil,” Katherine Jensen and Dias (2022) challenge the assumed relationship between (negative) racialization and legal exclusion. The authors examine racialization of immigrants from Haiti, Syria, and Venezuela in the context of legal inclusion in Brazil.…”

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Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion

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Park

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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The five articles in this second of a two-part special issue on racialization and migration 1 discuss how racialization is not exclusively linked to the exclusion of migrants, at least not explicitly so. They challenge "crimmigration," which sits at the center of many pieces in the first part, as the core of migrant racialization in two ways. First, they speak to how organizations or contexts seemingly welcoming to migrants can (often unintentionally) reify the same racializing logics of the xenophobic social or legal regime that exclude migrants as disposable and exploitable. Or, more precisely, they demonstrate how the "inclusion" and "exclusion" of migrants are not contradictory or even in tension with each other but instead mutually constructive (De Genova, 2013). Second, they raise questions about what racialization is/does from the perspective of the migrants and consider migrants as not only the objects but also subjects of racialization. Both of these perspectives add nuance to the race and racialization scholarship by illustrating that racialization is not a status of being but a process of becoming and a process full of contention and inconsistency.This collection of articles empirically attests to the elasticity of hegemony and the complex struggle for a just or radical future. In "Building and Wedging Strategic Alliances: Racial Framing Contests in the Immigrant Rights and Nativist Counter-Movements," Hajar Yazdiha (2022) establishes the pivotal role of racial meaning in

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“…lutadores; por outro, desenha-os como dependentes de serviços básicos, incapazes de ganhar autonomia e de serem responsáveis por si mesmos (JENSEN; SOUSA DIAS, 2022, p. 9-10). Ao mesmo tempo em que os culpam pelo aumento da violência, outras narrativas os descrevem como vindos de um país "vizinho e irmão" -o que reforça referências a identidades, culturas e histórias compartilhadas -, e usam a ideologia política para mobilizar a solidariedade aos imigrantes (JENSEN;SOUSA DIAS, 2022, p. 12-14).…”

Section: Relevância Na Recepção Aos Venezuelanosunclassified

Entre o fechamento e a abertura: política migratória de admissão para nacionais venezuelanos na América do Sul

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The Venezuelan migration crisis is an unprecedented migratory phenomenon in Latin America and currently is the second largest migration movement in the world after Syria. When widescale Venezuelan migration began, the receiving countries in the region did not require visas from Venezuelans; the regional reception was thus considered to be positive compared to responses to migratory crises in other parts of the world. Over time, however, countries have diversified their responses, with some keeping low entry requirements while others impose entry restrictions, like visa requirements, on Venezuelans. To better understand this change, this thesis investigates, from a comparative perspective, admission migration policies towards Venezuelans implemented by the Latin American countries that have received the most of these immigrants. Three countries -Peru, Ecuador, and Chile -have changed entry rules by imposing visa requirements on these immigrants, while others -Colombia, Brazil and Argentina -have not. This research aims to identify factors that may have influenced decisions regarding the admission of Venezuelans. The main argument is that the number of immigrants and shared borders were the crucial determinants in a country's decision on whether to impose a visa requirement on Venezuelans, although other factors were also present, such as foreign policy interests, internal political crises, perception of migration, immigrants' profiles, previous experience as a destination country, previous migration policies and common migratory history. Furthermore, the findings of this research challenge the "reverse paradox", a conceptual framework that has contributed in recent years to the understanding of migration policy in Latin America.

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Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion: Haitian, Syrian, and Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Brazil

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion

Entre o fechamento e a abertura: política migratória de admissão para nacionais venezuelanos na América do Sul

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