Debilitating mobilities

The logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7921028
AutoresBronte Alexander (0000-0002-7452-3926, Griffith University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume18
Fascículo3
Páginas520-536
Data de publicação2023-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMobilities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450101.2022.2130708
OpenAlexW4304175297
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas41

The recent political and economic crisis in Venezuela has given rise to an increase in Venezuelan migrants and refugees to Brazil. Situated in the northern state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, this research explores the military-humanitarian response coordinated by the Brazilian government. Investigating the underpinning logic of such a humanitarian approach highlights the ways in which vulnerable mobile groups are offered support, while at the same time, are tightly governed for the protection of state security. I argue that Brazil’s military-humanitarian approach to mobility governance reflects a logic of debility that works to control migrants. This logic emerges through subtle forms of violence and consequently reinforces migrant vulnerabilities, keeping them in a cyclical loop of exclusion. This paper addresses the militarisation of the response across the urban streetscape of the city of Boa Vista, including humanitarian spaces of care, to investigate processes of securitisation and hygienisation. By doing so, this paper contributes to timely discussions on military-humanitarianism and draws attention to South-South mobilities and the salient geographies of Brazil and Latin America more broadly

Corporate governance · Economics · Latin Americans · Mobilities · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Salient · Social science · Sociology · Underpinning · Engineering · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Sex work and related issues