Migração forçada: uma análise da rearticulação das relações sociais de mulheres congolesas na cidade do Rio de Janeiro a partir da categoria solicitante de refúgio

Abstract

Forced migration is a phenomenon that influences the social dynamics of individuals. Based on the international and national documents that categorize and label the individuals that are forced to move internationally, our interest was to delimit the experience of congolese women in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Through the bureaucratic categorization as a refugee applicants and the social categorization by civil society organization, we observe the re- articulation of the social relations of congolese women cared for by Caritas Archdiocesan of Rio de Janeiro (CARJ, acronym in portuguese). It is concluded that congolese women had the CARJ as an agency space for the formation of social networks, rearticulating their ethnic identities and forming social relations from social cleavages such as gender. This effect was perceived as a part of familiar rearrangement resulting from international bureaucratic labeling as refugees, in addition to bureaucratic categorization as refugee applicants in Brazil. The formation of social networks happened from the structural needs (labor market) and individual relations (family and culture) of the congolese women.