O regime de informação entre o tratamento humanitário e a vigilância para o controle: ecos da gramática global no sistema de refúgio brasileiro

Abstract

This research is an analysis about the information policy in the Brazilian refugee system, considering the notion of regime of information. Information policy is understood as a pillar of global refuge system, constructed and lead socially and historically by the State. It is characterized as a resource of power and made possible by infrastructure. So, it is treated as a logic of power based on information, which is oriented by two perspectives: human rights and national security. The objective is to investigate how this information policy is built in view of the regime theory, using as hypothesis the existence of a global dilemma between the languages of humanitarian treatment and of surveillance for control. A qualitative-quantitative methodology is adopted, based on a convergent analysis between hypothetic-deductive and inductive precepts ⎯ of exploratory character by documentation analysis ⎯ with the support of statistical data collection for descriptive and explicative analysis. Besides considering the interface between Information Science with other fields of knowledge, it was made an empirical study in the refugee archives at the Attendance Program of Refugees and Refuge Applicants at Caritas Archidiocesan of Rio de Janeiro (Pares-CARJ). To understand the environment where the flow of information has been produced, semi-structured interviews with professionals and volunteers of Pares-CARJ were made. As a complement to the information produced in the interviews, the motives of refugees were collected, which make them escape from their countries. Based on data analysis collected, it was observed that the dilemma suggested is part of the making of information policy about the refugees in Brazil. The regime of information is not imposed in an isolated form, but in convergence with other regimes, namely: regime of refuge and regime of surveillance. To observe the infrastructure that shapes the migration management allows to understand the languages that lead to certain political and operational behaviors, bearing in mind the logic of domination in international relations. In this way, asymmetries in multiple levels of informational power are revealed, as well as within the phases of production, systematization, transference, or ⎯ in a larger sense ⎯ in the political and decision making spheres.