O trabalho das instituições religiosas de dourados noacolhimento de venezuelanos interiorizados

Abstract

In recent years, Brazil has received one of the largest migratory numbers in South America of Venezuelans who migrated to the Brazilian state of Roraima in search for better living conditions after the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Faced with the large numbers of immigrants, Roraima had difficulties to provide necessary assistance and, therefore, different actors mobilized to assure decent living conditions for Venezuelans, until when was necessary to provide other possibilities for habitation and social integration in the other Brazilian states. Thus, in 2018, other institutions at the national and international level joined forces to make possible and internalize Venezuelans, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but we see that the work is not restricted only to International Organizations, as religious entities in the city of Dourados, such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and the Methodist Church worked together and cooperated with other institutions, like the Sérgio Vieira de Melo Chair at the Federal University of Grande Dourados, to properly welcome and shelter Venezuelans who found a new place to settle in Dourados. Therefore, the present work is dedicated to a qualitative analysis to understand how religious institutions provided assistance in Dourados to Venezuelans internalized between 2019 and 2022. As a result of this research, it is possible to understand that religious entities can also be relevant to the reception of refugees and that this kind of work should not be restricted only to the activities of International Organizations.