The subject in condition of refuge in face of stigma and their mechanisms of resistance

Abstract

This work discusses how the stigmas associated with individuals in refugee situations in Brazil mark the subjectivity of those who need to leave their country of origin due to well-founded fear, despite the guarantees established by international agreements and treaties and legal rights established in Brazil. To this end, the protections guaranteed by International Organizations to these subjects in treaties and conventions are presented, as well as their legal and social reality when in a refugee situation in Brazil. Subsequently, based on the concept of stigma presented by Goffman (2008), we sought to understand how the stigmas associated with these groups materialize, pointing out how they are associated and internalized by the subjects themselves in a refugee situation. Thus, it is observed that this individual finds himself in an in-between place, to which he does not feel fully belonging, which is justified by the stigmatization by the “other”, but also by the internalization of the stigma itself and the expression of the tense subjectivity that is constituted in the refugee process. Finally, the importance of support networks in the face of the stigmatization of this subject in Brazil is presented, emphasizing the representativeness of the resistance mechanisms created by them in the promotion of interculturality and the constitution of their own identity.