Imigração síria no Rio de Janeiro (2011-2019): alteridade e a questão do outro na sociedade carioca

Abstract

Brazil is a country of immigrants and extremely diverse in terms of culture and religion. As a result of this diversity, the Brazilian society can be understood from the point of alterity, the condition of the other. There are, thus, different ways and deals related to the different groups and clusters of the immigrants that had have Brazil as a fate, such the Syrians, forced migrants from a country which is deeply in a civil war since 2012. The aim of this research is to analyze the different comprehension perspectives that surround Brazilian, a particular cluster, Syrians, and the State of Brazil, which comprehends migrations by laws related to the question. Throw his history, Brazil had create laws under the aegis of prejudice, xenophobia and exclusion that have a negative perspective; nevertheless, in 2017, the New Law of Immigration entered into force bringing opening in terms of politics and praising humanity character, regardless the origins of those who wants to live in Brazil. Under Brazilian perspective, there are many reactions, such as prejudice, xenophobia and racism to the empathy, solidarity and sheltering. Finally, Syrians have the own perspective of their recent history in Brazil, which is analyzed by the methodology of oral history, that brings up nuances of a group with origin, culture, religion and habits such different than Brazilian.