A Política migratória brasileira para refugiados: o caso dos haitianos

Abstract

This work seeks to list the historical and political events in Haiti which added to environmental disasters have left the Haitian State unable to guarantee fundamental rights to the population. Emigration has long been part of the history of Haitians, the persecution of authoritarian governments, the fragile economy and environmental disasters have been major motivator of this exodus throughout their history. The focus of this work is the growing Haitian immigration into Brazil, aiming to associate this intense emigration to the massive violation of human rights and the state's inability to guarantee security and stability to its people, and not only to economic factors as it has been shown by the Brazilian state. It is contested here the solution adopted by the National Committee for Refugees denying Haitians the status of refugees, sending them directly to the National Immigration Council, which granted the humanitarian visa, provisionally, when it is clear that the violation of human rights in the country, one of the Cartagena Declaration of 1984 criteria, links this condition to the refuge. The work concludes regarding Brazil's response to the Haitian emigration, raising hypotheses why the comprehension of international human rights is not valued in this case.