Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil
Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil
This article explores the gendered securitisation of humanitarianism through the lens of Venezuelan women who have fled to Brazil, as part of the largest migration flow in South America. By the end of 2022, the number of displaced Venezuelans had grown to seven million, half of whom were women and girls. Alongside humanitarian programmes, measures of migration control, policing and deterrence are now routinely implemented. This article explores the interplay between securitised policies and humanitarian programmes in the everyday experience of rights of Venezuelan migrant women and girls. We ask: what happens when migrant women reach Brazil, a supposed place of safety? Do they experience rights restitution and protection, or do they continue to be subject to everyday gendered humiliations? Building on fieldwork in Boa Vista and Manaus in 2020–2022, we explore migrant women and girls’ experiences with shelter and healthcare, two central pillars of humanitarian programmes. Contributing directly to literatures on migration management, humanitarianism and control, this article focuses on ‘the receiving end’ of securitised humanitarian practices and deploys a gender lens to reveal how securitised humanitarianism reproduces disciplinary dynamics of governance and creates gendered risks and vulnerabilities that erode migrant women and girl’s rights and agency in everyday life.
gender, human rights, humanitarian interventions, securitisation, South-South forced migration
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Riggirozzi, Pía
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23 March 2023
Riggirozzi, Pía
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Cintra, Natalia
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Grugel, Jean
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Garcia Garcia, Gabriela
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Carvalho Lamy, Zeni
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Riggirozzi, Pía, Cintra, Natalia, Grugel, Jean, Garcia Garcia, Gabriela and Carvalho Lamy, Zeni
(2023)
Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49 (15), .
(doi:10.1080/1369183X.2023.2191160).
Abstract
This article explores the gendered securitisation of humanitarianism through the lens of Venezuelan women who have fled to Brazil, as part of the largest migration flow in South America. By the end of 2022, the number of displaced Venezuelans had grown to seven million, half of whom were women and girls. Alongside humanitarian programmes, measures of migration control, policing and deterrence are now routinely implemented. This article explores the interplay between securitised policies and humanitarian programmes in the everyday experience of rights of Venezuelan migrant women and girls. We ask: what happens when migrant women reach Brazil, a supposed place of safety? Do they experience rights restitution and protection, or do they continue to be subject to everyday gendered humiliations? Building on fieldwork in Boa Vista and Manaus in 2020–2022, we explore migrant women and girls’ experiences with shelter and healthcare, two central pillars of humanitarian programmes. Contributing directly to literatures on migration management, humanitarianism and control, this article focuses on ‘the receiving end’ of securitised humanitarian practices and deploys a gender lens to reveal how securitised humanitarianism reproduces disciplinary dynamics of governance and creates gendered risks and vulnerabilities that erode migrant women and girl’s rights and agency in everyday life.
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Securitisation humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 February 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 March 2023
Published date: 23 March 2023
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This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [grant number ES/T00441X/1]. We are indebted to Rita Bacuri at the Fiocruz Foundation, Manaus (Brazil) who supported the design and methodology of data collection and to Adriana Rodriguez who facilitated access to the interviewees in shelters in Manaus and Boa Vista.
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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gender, human rights, humanitarian interventions, securitisation, South-South forced migration
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476542
ISSN: 1369-183X
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Natalia Cintra
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Zeni Carvalho Lamy
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