Venezuelans experience in Roraima

from Ka Ubanoko community to the confinement of operação acolhida

Abstract

This article aims to understand the clash between two forms of reception experienced by Venezuelan migrants in the city of Boa Vista (RR). On the one hand, there are the autonomous processes of life management, whose starting point is the Ka Ubanoko occupation, and on the other, the institutionalized forms of control, manifested in the sheltering policy of Operação Acolhida. Our hypothesis is that the Operation has acted as a device to dismantle community ties and citizen participation strategies built by Venezuelans. We identified that the humanitarian response establishes different mobility circuits, voluntary or not, and waits, producing hierarchies and inter-ethnic conflicts, while the migrants try to resist permanent precariousness by making a commitment to the common good.