O agravamento da crise dos refugiados em tempos de neoliberalismo e a ressignificação do papel do Estado

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the weakening of the implementation of social policies and the marginalization of vulnerable groups such as refugees, due to the advance of neoliberalismo and the negation of State provision of fundamental rights through social policies. We analyze the individual-State relationship of foreign groups in Brazil and the legal treatment given to them to show the absence of their effective reception and inclusion. The reasons for refugees should be seen as a vulnerable group that demands state protection. The question then arises as the imposition of neoliberal rationality affects the promotion of social policies for this group and changes the relations between individual, state and society, implying a process of de-democratization in the face of the lack of commitment to the concretization of citizenship in its social aspect. It is argued that the establishment of the neoliberal model transforms the purpose of the State's existence and alters this relationship, resulting in a reduction in the promotion of universal social policies to guarantee fundamental rights and promote citizenship of refugees. It is concluded that neoliberalism, by deconstructing the sense that it is up to the State to correct inequalities and imposing economic logic as a criterion of public policy decisions, alters understandings about citizenship and the universality of rights associated with these policies.