| dc.description.abstract | The research aims to investigate the production of public policies of international
cooperation adopted between Brazil and Argentina, driven by the Agreements and
Conventions assumed by them. From this, we intend to know and understand their
constitution in relation to the confrontation and prevention of transnational smuggling of
migrants between 2010 and 2018. Thus, this study starts from the following question:
what is the political-legal apparatus of cooperation between Brazil and Argentina for the
confrontation and prevention of transnational smuggling of migrants at their borders?
And how is such apparatus, as public policy, being operated at the borders between the
two countries? Similarly, it seeks to determine how cooperation is being implemented in
terms of actions, awareness campaigns, efforts, mechanisms, and joint public policies
aimed at preventing the practice of migrant smuggling/trafficking, with special attention
to protecting the human rights of the migrant community - the subjects of rights. Besides
the highlighted points, the operation of repression/combat measures and securitization
of border control policies are examined. Thus, after the analytical construction of the
research topic, it was found that the political actions taken to address the complex
scenario of migrant smuggling have been viewed from two angles: the first, aimed at
tackling the crime itself and its repression, which is perfected by the securitization
agenda adopted by Brazil; and the second, aimed at actions to protect and protect the
human rights of migrants, with a social policy bias, which would help minimize the
invisibility of this reality. It remains evident that in the period from 2010 to 2018, with
reflection in the present day, the category of migrant smuggling and its occurrence did
not consist in a concern for the Brazilian state, in the sense of debating and elaborating
state political actions for its prevention, with a view to the protection of migrants. What
can be observed is the intention to include it in the debate of the IV National Plan, which
will be implemented in 2023. In the Argentinean context, the smuggling/trafficking of
migrants has been taken into consideration, that is, it´s understood as a State policy
aimed at prevention, and it is notorious for its focus on human rights and their protection.
Regarding the procedure adopted in this research, it is characterized in a qualitative
approach, with documentary and bibliographic analysis, on a national and international
level, as well as the consultation of domestic legislation in Brazil and Argentina, regarding
existing public policies on the subject of study. A survey was carried out of the
conventions, protocols, and other international instruments that served to help
understand the reality studied. The second part of the data collection (primary) includes
semi-structured interviews with key players directly involved with the studied theme. The
construction of the methodological field, from the operational analytical categories,
counted on the theoretical referential of Stephen Castles (migration governance,
security, securitization); Alexander Betts (undocumented); Lindomar Boneti (public
policies); Zygmunt Bauman (globalization, human discard, exclusion); Seyla Benhabib
and Donatella Di Cesare (citizenship, exclusion and invisibility processes); Giorgio
Agamben (state of exception, bare life, biopolitics); Ratna Kapur (transnational
migration), Delmos Jones (transmigrants). | en |
