Brazilian foreign policy and human international mobility

• Grant number: 14/05545-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: June 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Tullo Vigevani
• Grantee: Fernanda Rais Ushijima
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the latest decades, human mobility has increasingly become part of the reality of States, of their diplomacies and of the agenda of international politics. In Brazil, as in the international context, migration, tourism and travel are the ways human mobility presents itself. In this research, we will study the case of Brazil, analyzing the development of Brazilian foreign policy related to human international mobility during the period of 1990 to 2016, and we will verify how the projection of the phenomenon has impacted Brazil's international relations and diplomacy. Using the Foreign Policy Analysis approach, we will develop an analysis of the State and of the bilateral and multilateral relations generated by the phenomenon, analyzing if the Brazilian State has followed or not the evolution of the theme in the international sphere and the political processes, the interests and the institutional changes in the domestic level, and verify if the elaboration of national policies related to the phenomenon, such as consular policy, visa policy and diaspora diplomacy represents a strategy of use of human mobility to promote development. (AU)