Tornar-se refugiada: uma análise das experiências interseccionais de subjetivação que atravessam os corpos de mulheres venezuelanas e haitianas acolhidas no Brasil

Abstract

This study aims to examine the changes in subjectivity experienced by Venezuelan and Haitian women who are forcibly displaced and sheltered in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. The period of analysis includes the deepening of the political and economic crises in Venezuela and Haiti, and the increase in the number of women and girls received in Brazil from 2010 onwards. Specifically, the aim is to discuss the experiences of women in forced migration during the deepening crisis that generated the displacement and in the process of local integration, through an analysis that identifies the intersectionality between gender, race, class and migratory status and how these experiences traverse their bodies. The method used was ethnographically inspired, with data collection consisting of field research through interviews conducted in 2024 with Venezuelan and Haitian women residing in the city, combined with a literature review, focused on critical, intersectional, feminist, and human rights references. Among the results presented, it is noteworthy that gender identity influences all stages of forced displacement and that it alters the migratory experience of the women interviewed. Furthermore, forced migration causes the loss of social structures and other elements important to the subjectivity of these women, while simultaneously establishing spaces of limitation and absence that (re)produce forms of symbolic violence.