Estado e Sociedade Civil no Processo de Migração Venezuelana

Abstract

This article presents a synthesis of the results of the research developed during postdoctoral in Society and Borders, with scholarship of the "Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior" (CAPES) (Scholarship Education Personnel Improvement Coordination), in the Federal University of Roraima, between 2018 and 2020. The objective is to analyze the role exercised by the organizations/entities of the civic society acting on the migratory subject at the time of the research, who engaged in Operation Acolhida. The data obtained by the field research, through semi-open interviews with key interlocutors and the participating observation in the different acting spaces of those entities/organizations, proven an intense protagonism from the acting parts in fighting the situations of precariousness, violation of rights, harassment against migrants, in addition to the intense political pressure for government response. However, after the establishment of the official humanitarian response in 2018 and, therefore, the inclusion of entities as collaborators in operation "Acolhida", the roles of these actors were reconfigured. The assistance actions, considered emergency, prevailed over actions of political incidence. In the absence of social pressure for an effective public policy, the migratory management has been based on a permanent emergency model for five years. Such process suggests the importance of critically (re)thinking the current model, the interests that the actual model caters to and the role of the organized civil society in transforming the emergency humanitarian aid in migratory policy.