CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Ignacio, Renata Rossi |
|---|---|
| Title | Essential Measures or Discriminatory Policies? The Border Closure During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil |
| Summary | Since the COVID-19 Pandemic started, the Brazilian government published around 40 Decrees regulating the closure of borders supposedly in order to prevent contagion. However, the measures adopted were controversial, since that while entering by air was never prohibited, land borders were strictly closed with no exceptions to Venezuelans. In this sense, it is important to understand: what were the legislative measures adopted in Brazil during the pandemic to impede migration and refuge in the borders? Did these measures actually aim at preventing COVID-19 or had another goal? Did Brazil comply with national and international legislations and standards? In this thesis, I adopt a qualitative analysis to read legislative texts embedded in the current Brazilian socio-political context. First, I unfold Brazilian Migration and Refuge Laws, and some challenges of implementation; secondly, I explain the content of the decrees adopted by the federal government during the years of 2020 and 2021, and their impacts; finally, I analyse international standards, with a special focus in the Inter-American System of Human Rights, to finally conclude with the violations perpetrated by Brazil in a national and international level in the migration and refuge field. Backlashes have been clearly occurring even before the pandemic, but the crisis scenario was the perfect excuse for militarization of the borders and selective entrance. |
| Supervisor | Polgari, Eszter |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/ignacio_renata.pdf |
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