Corpos em (des)locamento: refugiados LGBTQIA+ no Brasil

Abstract

Migratory flows, forced or not, are part of human history. Meanwhile, the construction of the refugee as a subject of law happened only through the 1951 Refugee Convention. By not explicitly bringing into its scope, persecution for sexuality/identity, some countries have come to understand, above all, in the 1990s, that these aspects would be reasons for granting the status of refugee to LGBTQIA+ people. Brazil has been adopting such comprehension from the first decade of 2000th and it has received requests annually from those people who are persecuted in their places of origin due to their sexuality/gender identity. Added to this, other migratory flows that escape this type of persecution, but that bring subjects who have in their sexuality/identity markers of difference in their social existence. Through the life story of three refugees, who identify themselves as LGBTQIA+, it is proposed to understand in this dissertationthe negotiations they establish with the State and with life to "inhabit the world" in Brazil. It was noticed that the legal categories created to categorize the refugees carry a burden which produces a feeling of insufficiency and fear in these subjects and that they have substantive impacts on the way in which they inhabit the world. And that sexuality becomes central in the negotiations and narratives that these refugees deal with the State and with real life. It was noted the importance of Non-Governmental Organizations aimed to meet this public that tends to fear State agents atcheckpoints and due to the lack of public policies for this group of refugees. It concludes that sexuality/identity are markers of difference that gain centrality along the paths of refugees even when they are not persecuted by sexuality/identity that are different from their places of origin.