A infância migrante no Brasil: a percepção dos operadores do sistema de garantia de direitos a partir da migração infantil venezuelana

Abstract

In the last decade, migrant childhood has been socially perceived in different ways around the world, ranging from subjects at risk who need the protection of the State and/or enemies of the State. In Brazil, despite Venezuelan migration shed light on the condition of children who cross the country's borders, child migration still represents a challenge to the Rights Guarantee System, due to its difficult conceptualization. The present study seeks a possible characterization of the transnational child migratory flow to Brazil in the period 2018-2020. Considering the health measures resulting from the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), a research was carried out that associated cyber-ethnography with cyber-praxiography, in different methodological processes of collecting information about migrant childhood, from the perception of the participants. professionals who work in this segment within the scope of the Rights Guarantee System (Justice System and Unified Social Assistance System). At first, we present a brief historical review of child migration to Brazil, highlighting Venezuelan child migration. In the second moment, we present a discussion about the construction of the image of the migrant child in the urban social imaginary, relating it to the academic image and the public image of this childhood. At the last moment, we turned our gaze to the process of recognizing migrant children in their human right to citizenship and human dignity, considering the challenges for their protection by the Rights Guarantee System. Finally, we present a possible image of the migrant child as a subject of Rights, historical, cultural and citizen.