Migration and crime: deconstructing the policies of security and human trafficking

Author(s)

Guilherme Mansur Dias

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2014-03-27

Examining board members

Bela Feldman; Eduardo Domenech; Marcia Anita Sprandel; Rosana Aparecida Baeninger; Adriana Gracia Piscitelli

• Advisor: Bela Feldman

Abstract

This thesis examines the link between migration and security, focusing on the reproduction of international policies and the concept of human trafficking. It is based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted in Europe and Brazil. The first part of the thesis examines how migration and security became inter-related topics in European and international policymaking and legislation. The findings are based on the observation of several international organizations working in the field of migration and crime/security, tracing their role in the construction of a new discourse of migration governance, related to the use of human rights rhetoric. The second part of the thesis is comprised of the analysis of how the policies linking migration and security have been received and interpreted by the Brazilian State and society. In this case, the concept of "trafficking in human beings" and its introduction in the Brazilian context is used as a window to understand the complexities related to the migration apparatus and governance concerning the control of populations (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/02784-3 - Migration and Trafficking in Persons in the European Context: a proposal for an ethnographic study
• Grantee: Guilherme Mansur Dias
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate