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| Author(s): |
Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-10-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Paula Montero;
Gustavo Baptista Barbosa;
Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques;
Leonardo Augusto Schiocchet
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| Advisor: | Paula Montero |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis, I sought to analyze the formation and social dynamics of an urban occupation in São Paulo that housed Palestinian refugee families from the Syrian conflict based on the intersections of solidarity networks of social movements and NGOs in specific political visibility conjunctures, both local and international. In the midst of the mediatization of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Palestinian families began to be framed (BUTLER, 2015) as vulnerable, subject to help and ethical-political interest. I considered the impact of the visibility of the refuge caused by the Syrian conflict in the Leila Khaled occupation, as well as in the ways of participation, socialities and perception of these families, as well as the forms of political and humanitarian solidarity. On the one hand, visibility projected the occupation publicly, generating the engagement of solidarity networks (left, civil organizations and public authorities) with Palestinian families, generating an internal imbalance in the occupation, given that Brazilian families did not receive the same attention. At the same time, these war frameworks, in turn, do not coincide with the Palestinians modes of presentation and self-perception, modeled on Palestinian refugee experiences over 70 years, which mobilize images of a vital relationship with the ancestral land, memory and ideas about family and the strength contained in their blood. My objective was to understand the terms that underlie and articulate these perceptions, how they impact and produce these socialities, the political and economic forms of participation and coexistence, in the organization of political-cultural spaces, in political articulations with social movements, in the production and food marketing, and in the neighborhood relationship between Palestinian families. My initial hypothesis is that publicizing the refuge, while limiting the actors to the role of refugees according to a humanitarian logic, enabled a positive perception of the Arab and Muslim populations among Brazilians. During the research, I was able to observe the expansion of solidarity networks and connections, the creation of new procedures to deal with difference (ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political) and also the development of a sensitivity towards refuge. At the same time, conflicts, ruptures and mistrust emerged with the same force, revealing the complex fabric of the forms of reception of refugee populations in Brazil, and how these populations responded to them (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/26831-7 - Refuge, narrow ground: on humanitarianism, visibility, memory and blood among Palestinian refugee families in Syria |
| Grantee: | Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |