THEY CALL US VENECO

: VOZES E IDENTIDADES DE CRIANÇAS MIGRANTES VENEZUELANAS NO BRASIL

Abstract

This article is the result of field research carried out in the cities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima, in the State of Roraima, with Venezuelan migrant children. The data collection sites were two Projects by the NGO World Vision (in 2019 and 2022) and the OPA Project - Informal Shelter for Refugees (in 2019, 2021 and 2022). Members of the Study and Research Group on Children, Cultures, Education and Society (GEPICES), with the partnership and support of the NGOs Visão Mundial and Retalhos de Esperança, carried out a listening work with Venezuelan refugee children in Brazil starting from the conception that the child's place is in culture and in the world as a whole, a social function that implies producing necessary theoretical, discursive and subjective shifts, seeking to break with the adult-centered bias that permeates spaces and relationships between adults and children in society Modern. Thus, the methodological proposal for the research starts from a sensitive listening (BARBIER, 1992) that aims to give children's subjects the social role of protagonists of their existences. For this, focus groups were held with the children, with the mediation of reading a story, conversations with guidelines, which could be guided or free, bringing questions and experiences of the children, plastic expression activities, among other activities that the children were invited to participate. The experiences were recorded in photographs, audio recordings and videos, producing a material field that configures the corpus of the research. The results of the work lead us to reflect on the identity construction of small migrants and the importance of an ethical and political commitment to migration issues.