Marília Calegari

3 Responses to Marília Calegari

1. Nekehia Quashie says:

   January 9, 2014 at 8:09 pm

   Hi Marilla:
   I am curious about countries of origin of refeugees in Brazil. Do the refugees come from several different nations within the region or predominantly from a couple countries?

   Related to the question above, can you talk a bit about how the low authorization of family reunification differs among refugee populations in Brazil based on their origins? For instance, which refugee groups are more or less likely to be granted family reunification.

   thanks.
   • Marília Calegari says:

     January 11, 2014 at 2:06 pm

     Hello Nakehia.
     I appreciate your question.

     Until 1992, the refugee population in Brazil was not significant numerically, but in 1993, the country received for the first time Angolan refugees. Due to a violent scene in Angola promoted by elections, more than a thousand Angolans applied for asylum in Brazil. However, these IDPs could not receive refugee status since they did not fit into the definition of the 1951 Convention. So Brazilian authorities decided to implement the definition of the Cartagena Declaration, which is broader, and recognized 720 Angolan refugees.
     Early in the period, the main nationalities were Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire and Liberia. Between 1994 and 1999, the preponderance was refugees from Angola, Liberia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cuba and Sierra Leone. The number of refugees from Sierra Leone surpassed Cubans since 2000. In 2005, Colombia emerged as the second major origin. The following year, the number of Congolese refugees overcame the Liberians. Since 2007, the prevailing origins became Angola, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Iraq.
2. Marília Calegari says:

   January 11, 2014 at 2:24 pm

   REPLY FOR DISCUSSANTS

   First, I would like to thank the comments and questions raised by the discussants. Certainly it will add much to my dissertation and future papers.
   The article in question is part of my dissertation, which is still in progress. This paper intends to – from the theoretical assumption that, in Brazil, the refuge appears as migratory modality of the twenty-first century – study the phenomenon from the family dynamics. Since de refugee condition is individual, family dynamics is essential for understanding the refuge as a modality of a broader social process, since the understanding of motion passes through the family of the member who has refugee status.
   The methodology used in this research consists of: literature review, analysis of documents, treaties and laws; database and specialized texts from UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Nations) and database of the CVPR (Survey of Living Conditions of Refugee population in Brazil), NEPO/UNICAMP/Office of Human Rights, 2007. The database used from UNHCR was chosen for providing a global view of the phenomenon from official data on forced displacement in the world. The Survey of Living Conditions of Refugee Population in Brazil (CVPR), in turn, was conducted in 2007 by the Center for Population Studies (NEPO/Unicamp), under the coordination of Professor Rosana Baeninger. The survey adopted the family as a category of analysis, considering refugee and non-refugee members, ordinarily resident members, non-usual residents members and absent members.
   The analyzes in this study advance towards understanding the role of the family in crisis migration. Since migration is a broad social phenomenon, which passes by the individual but goes beyond this, the family is a key element to understand the context and living conditions of the refugee population in Brazil.