Precarious spaciality of refugees in Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to explore the importance of the different types of displacement in constituting the differences of two collective of refugees. Influenced by Ingold (2007) and the importance he gives to the paths, trajectories and lines in phenomenological terms, now intending to investigate how the different migratory paths, established in conjunction by groups of people, imply the production of differences. This spatial dimension is especially evident in the case of refugees we have begun to study: varied paths of space routes caused by reasons unrelated to the will of the refugees. We have analyzed two cases of refugees/immigrants: Haitians and women refugees in São Paulo (mainly Congolese). These cases are linked to distinct spatial trajectories in the present.